When celebrities bring raw foods into public focus, it's a victory for all of us. This page is dedicated to any news we can find about famous people and raw foods. Let us know if you hear of something we've missed and we'll post it here.
The Raw Celebrity Corner *Victoria Boutenko's book Green for Life appeared many times on a recent episode of "The Girls Next Door," the popular E! Channel reality show about Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends. The show's stars kept consulting the book to get super fit before making an exercise video. *On the August 3, 2005Tonight Show, Jay Leno told guest Sharon Stone that before he was married, to meet girls he would never go to bars. Instead, he would go to supermarkets and stand around foods he hates: "Fruits and vegetables, because that's where you find the girls. They never stand by the pork." *Canadian recording artist Bif Naked is a raw vegan. *Reader Lily tells us that Demi Moore talked about her raw vegan diet on David Letterman's show. *According to a new book, Elvis Presley himself tried to be a raw foodist! Here's an excerpt from: Elvis Presley's Own Story: If I Can Dream, by Larry Geller and Joel Spector with Patricia Romanowski, based on the secret diary kept by Larry Geller, Elvis' friend and confidant: One day in 1973, he [Elvis] asked, "What do you eat?"As if he didn't know. My "bizarre" eating habits--I was a vegetarian then--were the subject of countless Memphis Mafia wisecracks. "Well," I said, "I eat as much raw food as I can, raw fruits and vegetables, and I don't eat meat." After I had explained my approach to nutrition, he nodded. Later that night, as we were all sitting down to dinner at the Holmby Hills house in Los Angeles, he said, "So that you all know what's happening around here, I'm changing my diet. Because the spiritual teachings say that you have to eat right, I'll be eating a lot of vegetables now, a lot of salads, and raw fruits. I'm telling the maids, and that's what they're going to make for me." Out went the brownies, the ice cream, the chicken-fried steak, the burgers. Elvis ate only fresh, nutritious, healthy foods--for two days. Then it was back to the same old nonsense. 
*Supermodel Carol Alt proudly declared her allegiance to raw foods on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect on March 12, 2002. Here's the transcript. 
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*When In Style magazine asked a bunch of celebrities "What's the strangest thing in your fridge?" actress Alicia Silverstone said the following: "Raw Balls. I like the name. They're made of dates, walnuts, almonds, carob and salt. They are so good." *Actress Alicia Silverstone brought raw foods to the attention of millions of viewers on the June 8, 2001 Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Sitting there chatting with Jay, the movie star said some raw hippie friends showed her how a compost pile will keep her yard from dissolving in a mudslide. But she didn't utter the word "raw" just once! "These raw vegans are de-aging themselves by eating raw foods," Alicia said. She raved about a 60-year-old Chicago woman who looks 35 because she eats raw foods. Jay asked Alicia what the mechanism is. She responded that he'd have to ask some raw foodists to explain the technicalities. Will Jay bring some raw foodists on his show for a recipe demo? Will Jay try raw foods himself? Could it be that he's eating them already? (We notice he's been looking more svelte lately.) Bravo, Alicia, for championing raw foods on the Tonight Show! By the way, Ms. Silverstone has the highest-rated show on the Fox Family network with her cartoon Braceface.See a transcript of Alicia's appearance on The Tonight Show . Celebrate raw vegan! *Kathy Raine reports: The May 28, 2001 issue of US Weekly says that Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Barbra Streisand have tried the diet. The article refers to Juliano Brotman and his book Raw: The UNcook Book. Of course the article is a little strange, but it's a start. Editor's Note: Have you heard about Chef Juliano's Raw-Food Video? * Blake Graham reports: The Oprah show featured a raw foodist who owns Karyn's Corner, a raw restaurant in Chicago. Maybe this woman will inspire Oprah to become raw herself. That would do wonders for the raw foods movement! See for yourself. Raw Foods Restaurateur on the Oprah Show 
* Extra TV reports: The Barbi Twins, who were bulimic in the past, have a new healthful lifestyle, in which they've been living on raw fruits and vegetables. In a December 2001 appearance to promote their new book, Dying to be Healthy: a Breakthrough Diet, Nutrition and Self Help Guide, Sia Barbi said: "It is not your typical diet tale, but nothing we do is ever typical."
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