Rewrapped Returns For A Second Season Filled With Even More Iconic Snack Foods And Culinary Competition

NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- From Sno Balls to Ho Hos, and Thin Mints to potato chips, the second season of Rewrapped, premiering Monday, September 8^th at 8:00pm ET/PT on Food Network, is stuffed with even more iconic snack foods viewers have enjoyed for years. On each of the 13 episodes of this culinary competition, hosted by Joey Fatone, three competitors recreate and innovate some of the most popular guilty pleasures. They must conquer two rounds of challenges to win the grand prize of a year supply of the featured snack!  

In the first round, all three competitors must recreate the beloved snack food from scratch, but can they make the perfect homemade Sno Ball or HoHo to look and taste like the original? Only two contestants will move on to the second round, where they must use their creativity and imagination to prepare an innovative, delicious dish using the original snack food as an ingredient. On each episode, head judge Marc Summers (Unwrapped) leads a rotating panel of experts, as they decide who will be crowned the winner.

Throughout the season competing chefs are challenged with recreating and inventing beloved snacks including, Lays "Do Us A Flavor" Potato Chips, Hostess Ho Hos, Tastykake Koffee Kake Juniors, Pepperidge Farm Chocolate Hazelnut Pirouettes, Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli, Hostess Sno Balls, Swiss Miss Triple Chocolate Dream Pudding, Girl Scouts Thin Mints, Nabisco RITZ Bits with Cheese, Pepperidge Farm Santa Cruz Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Dunkin' Donuts Glazed Pumpkin Cake Donuts, Jelly Belly Candy Corn, and Hammond's Candy Canes. Don't' miss as all the delicious action unfolds each episode, and be prepared to be Rewrapped!

Former *NSYNC star Joey Fatone is a natural entertainer, having appeared in film, stage and screen. Fatone previously competed on Food Network in Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off and Chopped All-Stars, and has appeared on Dancing with the Stars. He is the host and executive producer of Hub Network's upcoming unscripted parent-child swap series Parents Just Don't Understand. Joey has also served as host of NBC's international series The Singing Bee, and in late 2007 hosted the Australian version of the successful series. Fatone grew up in a family of performers and was always performing, with his first acting gig coming at age seven, starring with Robert DeNiro in the feature film Once Upon a Time in America. Other film credits include The Cooler, alongside Alec Baldwin and William H. Macy, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which became the fifth-highest grossing film of 2002 in North America. In 2004, Fatone starred as Seymour in the Broadway musical "Little Shop of Horrors."

Very few people can lay claim to having hosted literally dozens of TV shows. Marc Summers can state that lofty achievement as fact. In addition to his prominence in front of the camera, Marc has also been successful in his career as a stand-up comedian, an author, and an executive producer, working on Food Network's: Dinner: Impossible, and Restaurant: Impossible. A native of Indianapolis, Marc Summers moved to Los Angeles during the golden era of stand-up comedy. Marc's career shot into high gear in 1986, when Nickelodeon hired him as the host of Double Dare, helping to firmly establish Marc as a popular TV personality. Marc previously hosted the long term Food Network show Unwrapped, that each week uncovers behind-the-scenes details on classic American food, from peanut butter and chocolate syrup to French fries and bubblegum.

Rewrapped is produced by BSTV Entertainment.

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