Ray and Special Guest Nick Lachey to Throw a Thanksgiving Celebration for the Hard-Hit Community  

NEW YORK, NY - Wednesday, October 29 - CBS Television Distribution's RACHAEL RAY, winner of the 2008 and 2009 Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Talk Show, is headed to Wilmington, Ohio to come to the aid of the local soup kitchen and give the community a special Thanksgiving celebration in time for the holiday season.

Rachael Ray and her team, including Nick Lachey, Carter Oosterhouse and Kahi Lee are adopting the local soup kitchen. They will be surprising them with a complete kitchen and pantry renovation along with a promise to stock their shelves for the year ahead. The show will also help the community come together for a Thanksgiving feast filled with surprises at Roberts Convention Centre. RACHAEL RAY knows times are tough for this town and for many others across the country, but the show is looking forward to sharing the blessings of the season and reminding the town of Wilmington that everyone has a reason to be thankful.

Like many towns in America, Wilmington is suffering a severe economic downturn. The DHL shipping center was the town's largest employer, but shut down in January 2009 leaving thousands unemployed with little hope of finding another job in the area. With no options left, hungry residents are turning to the town's only soup kitchen for help. The majority of people coming into the soup kitchen are former DHL employees, and the kitchen is overwhelmed with trying to feed 200 to 300 people per day instead of their normal few hundred a week.

The special one-hour episode of RACHAEL RAY will tape in Wilmington on November 7 and 8 and is scheduled to air on November 25. Please check local listings at http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/. 

RACHAEL RAY, the 2008 and 2009 Emmy® Award-winning Outstanding Talk Show, is distributed and produced by CBS Television Distribution in association with Harpo Productions, Scripps Networks and Watch Entertainment.  Janet Annino is executive producer. Joseph Freed and Shane Farley are co-executive producers. CBS Television Distribution is a unit of CBS Corp.

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