Harry Hamlin on his cooking show, Lisa Rinna marriage — and that arrest: ‘I recommend 18 days in jail for everybody’

nypost.com:

Emmy-nominated actor Harry Hamlin now has his own cooking show — and he’s not sure why. “I’ve never seen a cooking show,” Hamlin, 72, told The Post. “They don’t interest me in the least, and I can think of a lot better ways to spend my time than that.

So, it never even crossed my mind. When they came to me from AMC … I basically said, ‘Are you kidding me? Why?’ I found out later that it was an executive’s wife [who suggested it].”“I said, ‘Look, I’m a cook with a small “c” … I will only do it if I can have my niece, who is a Cordon Bleu-trained chef, in the kitchen with me,’” he recalled. “In the Kitchen With Harry Hamlin,” which premieres Wednesday at 10 p.m.

on AMC+ and IFC, follows Hamlin and his niece Renee Guilbault as they whip up a dish in his home. Then they throw a dinner party for Hamlin’s celeb pals, such as Bobby Moynihan (“Saturday Night Live”), Ted Danson and his wife, Mary Steenburgen, and Dean Norris (“Breaking Bad”), where they dig into the food while having a freewheeling conversation (such as Hamlin reminiscing about the times he’s gotten arrested in his youth). “An older fraternity brother asked me to take some pills to another fraternity brother down South, and they looked in my bag, I got caught,” he explained to The Post. “I guess I was a [drug] mule.

I didn’t even know what the stuff was, but I went to jail for that. I recommend 18 days in jail for everybody. It’s a good leveler.