Debi mazar gay

Andrew Zimmern

It’s clear looking at actress Debi Mazar and her Italian husband, Gabriele Corcos, that they are madly in love with each other, but it’s their adore for food that really heats up the kitchen. The couple went from the Web to television with their new show on the Cooking Channel, Extra Virgin. We talk with Debi and Gabriele about the best things in life; family, love and of course, food.

AndrewZimmern.com: An acclaimed American actress falls in adoration with a Tuscan-born foodie. How did that happen?

Gabriele Corcos: Florence, Summer 2001. Debi was vacationing in Europe and came down to Florence to stop by Katia Labeque, a world-famous piano player that on that summer was recording a Latin-Jazz undertaking. I was one of the percussionists/producer. During the very first dinner we had together at Katia’s house I asked Debi if she wanted to take a stroll with me in the “piazza”, because I needed to go buy cigarettes. We exited the party and ended up grabbing a cocktail in a bar and sitting for three occupied hours on the steps of the Santo Spirito Church. We talked about life, travel, family, art and tune. When we realized how much hour have p

Debi Mazar Talks Womanhood, Millennials, and Breaking Rules

In the 1990s Debi Mazar’s cat-eyed glamour was spotted everywhere, alongside close friend Madonna. Arm-in-arm they strolled red carpets across two continents and partied with a glittery group of social provocateurs. As an actress, Mazar came on the scene and shone brightly in the 1990 iconic mob film, Goodfellas, as Ray Liotta’s coke-addled mistress.

She then appeared alongside actress Annabella Sciorra in Spike Lee’s 1991 interracial romance drama, Jungle Fever and followed that up with two more Spike Lee films, Malcolm X and Girl 6. In 1995 she spiced up the screen as one half of Sugar & Spice alongside Drew Barrymore in Batman Forever. More recent projects included the role of sharp-tongued publicist Shauna on HBO’s runaway knock series, Entourage,which aired from2004-2011.

Her characters have always been quick to offer a sarcastic comeback or some bold advice, no effs given. If film and television casts can be compared to ingredients, then Mazar is surely the hot sauce.

These days, the mom of two teenage daughters splits her time between Recent York City and Italy. Landing o

Debi Mazar said she feels "a responsibility to the lgbtq+ community" in playing a lesbian ethics on TVLand's "Younger."

The series, which also stars Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff, focuses on a 40-year-old single mom (Foster) who undergoes a makeover to appear 26 in an effort to land a publishing job after her husband leaves her.

On the show, which debuts on TVLand March 31, Mazar plays Maggie, a woman who just "happens to appreciate chicks instead of guys."

"I don't like to engage caricatures of people," she said in a HuffPost Survive interview this week. "I'm a Novel Yorker, so I've been surrounded by the life -- the gay being -- my whole life, from the community."

The "Entourage" and "GoodFellas" star, 50, also sounded off on the media firestorm surrounding Dolce & Gabbana's remarks about "synthetic children" who are born to same-sex families.

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“I’vebeensurrounded by ‘the life' my whole life,” acclaimed actress Debi Mazar told me in an interview on SiriusXM Progress. By “the life,” she meant gay life, as she discussed her role in Darren Star’s TV Land clap , “Younger,” playing a woman loving woman artist who lives in Brooklyn. And she highlighted “the life” when she talked about her longtime friendship with Madonna, who, of course, has been a gay icon since the ‘80s.

“I’ve played woman loving woman and transgender [roles],"Mazar said while discussing her ethics Maggie in “Younger,” which also stars Sutton Foster and Hillary Duff and returned for a second season last month. “Playing a lesbian is appreciate playing a straight person. Who you make romance to or who you have an affair with is really irrelevant -- whether you have a penis or a vagina or boobs or pecs, whatever. It is what it is.”

And her husband, celebrity cook Gabriele Corcos, with whom Mazar has co-hosted several cooking shows on The Food Network and The Cooking Channel, including the upcoming "Extra Virgin, Americana" (due in March), couldn't be happier that Mazar is playing a lesbian on TV.

“He prefers that I’m not making out with guys on a regular basis,” she explained,