“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,

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

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 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,