While Gomez’s grandparents and friends guest star as her taste testers, the chefs are really the judges of the pop star’s masterpieces and how she prepares them without …
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“I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’,” Selena Gomez croons in the opening background music for her new quarantine cooking show, Selena + Chef. The lyrics, from Gomez’s 2017 hit track “Bad Liar,” are an accurate summation of the singer-actress’s culinary efforts for HBO Max.
The lyrics, from Gomez’s 2017 hit track “Bad Liar,” are an accurate summation of the singer-actress’s culinary efforts for HBO Max. Despite her fame, wealth, and legions of fans, Gomez kind of sucks at cooking, but at least she’s gamely willing to try. To that, I must applaud, “Good for you.”
Selena Gomez is joining the world of celebrity chefs. The signer has signed on to do a cooking show for HBO Max, HBO's streaming platform debuting May 27. The project is currently going by Untitled Cooking Project, and Gomez is starring in and executive producing the unscripted, 10-episode series, which debuts this summer.
Which makes “Selena + Chef,” a new HBO Max series, the second of its type in this period, seem like a proportional, frank, and real response to the moment, as well as the second to be truly about living in 2020 without addressing the terrors of the present head-on.