Rocco DiSpirito is the celebrity chef who can be seen in the cooking show 'The Melting Pot'. The other show he does is 'The Restaurant'. Rocco DiSpirito has been in many shows which is a great hit. He has also been tagged as the Sexiest Chef by People Magazine. Rocco owns a restaurant in Manhattan named ' Union Pacific'.

 

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Personal Life

Rocco DiSpirito was born on 19 November 1966 in the Queens, New York, the United States of America. He attended Culinary Institute of America and later at the Jardin de Cygne in France. He completed his bachelor's degree from Boston University in business studies.

He was involved in cooking since his childhood with his mother. Growing old he learned many traditional Italian recipes from him mother Nicolina.

Talking about Rocco DiSpirito married life, he has been divorced in 2000. He was married to wife Natalie David. He is successful in today's age however he has not married again.

 

Professional Life

Rocco DiSpirito worked in the New York restaurant Lespinasse during the 1990s. Later after several years of experience, he opened his own restaurant in Manhattan in 1997, Union Pacific. Before that, he also worked for the French restaurant Lespinasse.

Soon his restaurant Union Pacific became a great hit and by 1999 he was named as 'Best New Chef' by Food and Wine magazine. He also started his television career making an appearance on the Food Network's 'The Melting Pot' in the year 2000.

The gourmet magazine even named Rocco "America's Most Exciting Young Chef" in 2000. In 2002 he was tagged as the Sexiest Chef by People Magazine. For a year, from 2003 to 04 he showed up in 'The Restaurant', the NBC reality television show. The show got canceled as he was sued by Jeffery Chodorow, restaurant financier. The restaurant got shut after the issue.

He then became the host of 'Food Talk' on New York Radio from October 2004 to December 2005. After he left the show he started n 'Rocco Gets Real', on TV A&E, and left on 27 December 2008. Later Rocco got featured in the commercial for Lincoln MKX and even in the ABC sitcom 'The Knights of Prosperity'.

He was also invited as a guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef. In 2008 he also appeared in NBC's 'The Biggest Loser: Couples'. Apart from that, he was the contestant of the dance show 'Dancing With The Stars' where he paired with Karina Smirnoff. He ended in the ninth position.

Rocco DiSpirito began his hosting for the reality TV cooking competition "Rocco's Dinner Party' on Bravo TV. He is also an author who has released eight cook books which also includes diet plan to lose weight, hungry girl diet, and so on. He also lost 30 pounds which made him a diet guru.

 

Net Worth and Salary

Rocco DiSpirito is among the wealthiest celebrity chefs. He has a very high earning from his well-established restaurant and TV career. Rocco has the estimated net worth of $4.5 million.

The other source of income for Rocco is the cook books he has written, writing eight cook books he has earned good revenue from it.

 

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Social Media

Despite his high busy schedule, Rocco DiSpirito can be seen on various social networking sites. People who are a great fan of Rocco should definitely follow his accounts as he makes many updates about his shows. We can also get smoothies recipes on his YouTube account. 

Rocco DiSpirito has also shared many of his diet plan and recipes on those social sites and we can also see a shirtless guy carrying his book where there are over 1.5 thousand likes. Rocco can be found on FacebookInstagramTwitter, and YouTube.  

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