Celebrity Kitchen

Heidi Montag, Ashlee Dupre, Bachelor Jake Starring in Restaurant Reality Show

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Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the television, boom, Heidi Montag all up in your face again. Well, sorta.

Details are trickling in but here's what we know according to a source close to VH1:

Montag in a Ferrari at Geisha House. Slated for a summer release, VH1's new reality show is called Celebrity Kitchen and it features seven celebrities (in addition to Montag: Real Housewife Danielle Staub, Bachelor Jake Pavelka, Elliot Spitzer's former "escort" Ashley Dupre, The Sopranos's Vinnie "Big Pussy" Pastore, members of the Three 6 Mafia DJ Paul and Juicy J). The celebs are put into small groups with various tasks and are given the resources to launch a restaurant, which they will then have to run and maintain.

It's topical. L.A., in the last decade, has seen a groundswell of super-hip, celebrity-backed restaurants – notably one called Dolce, launched by Lonnie Moore, Mike Malin and Ashton Kutcher. With that restaurant's meteoric success, Moore and Malin started The Dolce Group, a company who's speciality is seemingly creating restaurants for celebrities by celebrities.

There are no shortage of photos of Lindsay Lohan stumbling out of Giesha House (one of Dolce Group's nine joints).

We're told Moore and Malin are the show's host / restauranteur consultants. And they've brought in event production and design company Benassi Creative Group to design the restaurant. We looked them up: Benassi Creative Group have done the Black Eyed Peas grammy party, the Electric Daisy Carnival and is slated to revamp the famous Ice House comedy club in Pasadena.

So these celebs come up with the idea, run it past the consultants and see if they can actually get customers to pay for their dining experience. Count on some hearty doses of drama, in-fighting and petty squabbles. Add a dash of real-life dream-crushing and you have a bonafide reality series. VH1 has reportedly ordered 10 one-hour episodes.

Okay, so let's recap: A reality show featuring rappers, a "real" housewife, a giant Italian mobster-looking dude, Bachelor Jake, the good half of Speidi and a Eliot Spitzer's call girl?

We'd watch that.