Hailing from Asbury Park, New Jersey is a major personality from the underground scene that wrestling aficionados would come to know as Bam Bam Bigelow. Scott Charles Bigelow better known by his stage name, Bam Bam, was surprisingly nimble and agile for a man stood 6'3" and weighed 370 pounds. His finishing move the Bam Bam Sault was widely unexpected coming from a man of his stature and included a cartwheel moonsault off the top rope.
Bam Bam's illustrious career expanded through two decades. He began wrestling in the late 1980s and wrestled for all of the major pro-wrestling imprints. WCW, ECW, and WWF. Bam Bam was a one-time ECW Heavyweight Championship belt holder, a two-time WCW Tag Team Championship belt holder but didn't earn any belt honors in the WWF despite headlining multiple events including Wrestlemania XI where he took NFL legend, Lawernce Taylor. Unfortunately, Bigelow passed away at the tender age of 45 due to a drug overdose in 2007. His legacy still lives on.
Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.
Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.
Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.