Rocco DiSpirito

Rocco DiSpirito

Rocco DiSpirito (born November 19, 1966) is an American celebrity chef, reality television personality, and cookbook author based in New York City. He is known for his involvement in Union Pacific, a restaurant he opened in 1997 in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan. He departed Union Pacific in 2004. From 2003 to 2004, he starred in the NBC reality television show The Restaurant, which followed the launch and operation of a new Manhattan restaurant called Rocco's on 22nd. The show was canceled, and DiSpirito was successfully sued by the restaurant's financier Jeffrey Chodorow to have the restaurant shut down, and DiSpirito banned from entering the premises. He succeeded Arthur Schwartz as host of Food Talk, an hour-long morning talk show on New York Radio WOR (AM), from October 2004 through December 2005, and then hosted 12 episodes of the TV show Rocco Gets Real on A&E (October 4 through December 27, 2008). He was featured in a Lincoln MKX commercial and the ABC sitcom The Knights of Prosperity, and was a guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef. He was a contestant on season seven of Dancing with the Stars and was paired with professional ballroom dancer Karina Smirnoff. On June 15, 2011, he debuted as host of a weekly reality TV cooking competition, titled Rocco's Dinner Party, on Bravo TV. He hosted the syndicated television program Now Eat This! with Rocco Dispirito, which debuted on September 15, 2012. In 2013, he hosted the Food Network reality show Restaurant Divided, where he went to struggling restaurants where the owners had two differing visions and then picked which concept would save the restaurant. On August 20, 2017, he appeared on celebrity chef Guy Fieri's Guy's Grocery Games - Superstar Tournament Part 1, competing against other celebrity chefs. He has also appeared on other episodes of Guy's Grocery Games as well as Tournament of Champions and Guy's Ranch Kitchen.

Known For: Acting

Born: Queens, New York City, New York, USA, 1966-11-19

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2004	Eat This New York	himself	45
2	2009	The Ugly Truth	Guest Chef	65

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	Miss USA	Judge	60
2	1997	The View	Self	45
3	2003	The Restaurant		100
4	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
5	2004	The Celebrity Apprentice		51
6	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self	61
7	2005	Dancing with the Stars	Self - Contestant	60
8	2006	Top Chef	Himself - Guest Judge	66
9	2007	The Knights of Prosperity		70
10	2007	Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives	Self	67
11	2009	Castle	Rocco DiSpirito	80
12	2011	Rocco's Dinner Party		0
13	2012	The Choice	Self	0
14	2013	Guy's Grocery Games	Self	57
15	2014	The Mysteries of Laura	Rocco DiSpirito	71
16	2014	Celebrity Name Game	Self	53
17	2017	Guy's Ranch Kitchen	Self	70
18	2019	Supermarket Stakeout	Himself - Guest Judge	100
19	2019	Tamron Hall	Self - Guest	51
20	2020	Tournament of Champions	Self	67
21	2020	Tournament of Champions	Self - Contestant	67
22	2022	Sherri	Self - Guest	42
23	2022	Outchef'd	self	60
24	2022	Outchef'd	Self	60
25	2023	Superchef Grudge Match	Self	40
26	2023	Deliciously Twisted Classics	Self	0
27	2024	Wildcard Kitchen	Himself	100
28	2024	Wildcard Kitchen	Self	100

Rocco DiSpirito

Film

Television