“The first time I saw my husband, I thought he was gay and I tried to set him up on a date with a male friend of mine,” Ray said in Tuesday’s episode of Tommy DiDario’s “I’ve Never Said This Before” podcast. “And he said, ‘But I am not gay.'” That led the “Rachael Ray Show” host to cook up a different plan in her head.

Rachael Ray has revealed that she initially thought her now-husband, John Cusimano, was gay when they first met in 2001. Indeed, in a sneak peek at Tuesday's episode of host Tommy DiDario's I've Never Said This Before podcast,

Cooking show host Rachael Ray recently spoke on a podcast about trying to set up her now husband – lawyer and musician John Cusimano – with another man before the couple started dating.

The cookbook author and the actor met in 2001 at a friend's party and tied the knot at a Tuscan castle Italy in 2005.

When Rachael Ray first met her now-husband, John Cusimano, sparks didn’t exactly fly — at least not in the way one might expect.

When they first met, Rachael Ray thought now-husband John Cusimano was gay. In Us Weekly‘s exclusive clip from the Tuesday, January 7, episode of Tommy DiDario‘s "I've Never Said This Before" podcast,

Rachael Ray made NSFW confessions about her relationship with longtime husband John Cusimano, much to the horror of fans who called it "tacky."