RACHAEL RAY | $100 MILLION

The great Rachael Ray, by different accounts, is the third most popular Food Network star of all time. and In case you did not know, she is also the seventh richest celebrity chef in the country, made even more remarkable by the fact that she that the woman never had a single brick-and-mortar restaurant to her name; and. That’s not where the surprises end, though! Did you know that she never got any sort of formal training or degree in culinary?. Yet In spite of this, her culinary empire is greater than Ray nurtured has grown tenfold than the majority of the most chefs who have ever existed.

Her career first started after giving her customers live cooking lessons while working on the gourmet food market, where she was spotted by a local news channel. They persuaded Ray to give her lessons on live television, and 30 Minute Meals was born. Later on, the celebrity cook published a book of the same name and was approached by the Food Network and the Today Show. The rest, as they say, is history.