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"Selena + Chef," a 10-episode unscripted series
in which famous chefs appear remotely to teach Gomez to cook
dishes ranging from omelets to octopus, gets its debut on the
HBO MAX streaming platform on Aug. 13.
It was shot using remote cameras inside Gomez's kitchen in her
Los Angeles area home where the "Lose You to Love Me" singer was
in quarantine with her grandparents and three friends.
"I thought this would be something lighthearted, because I was
getting definitely down," Gomez, 28, told television reporters
during a preview on Wednesday.
"This was an opportunity to make people smile. I hope they are
going to laugh because I look like a fool," said Gomez, whose
185 million Instagram following is one of the largest in the
world. "I love cooking, I just don't know how to do it all the
time."
Spills, burns and sometimes inedible dishes emerge as chefs
including Antonia Lofaso, Ludo Lefebvre and Roy Choi appear on
screen from their own kitchens to teach the former Disney
Channel star how to tackle pasta, tacos, cookies and other
meals.
The octopus did not go so well. "People really didn't like
that," Gomez recalled. And the French omelet turned out to be
more complicated than she envisaged. "It was really difficult
because I am so used to doing it the American way," said Gomez.
Gomez said she has made several of the dishes again since
filming ended, but asked what she was best at whipping up fast
she kept to her old favorites.
"I can kill PB and J," she said of her peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Richard Chang)
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