A resurfaced video gained new notoriety after an X user revealed that the woman who told LaBelle that “paper was bad” during a 2008 taping of "The Tyra Banks Show" is the wife of Dan Schneider, the disgraced Nickelodeon producer and central character in the new headline-grabbing documentary, “Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.”
The scene is notorious to Patti LaBelle lovers. The Philadelphia songbird, who has sold 50 million records worldwide and been an international star for over seven decades, was about to slap the bejeezus out of a celebrity baker, Lisa Lillien.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JULY 03: Patti LaBelle speaks during SiriusXM's Kirk Franklin Praise Channel broadcast from Essence Festival at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 03, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
In December 2008, the "Lady Marmalade” singer appeared on the popular talk show and, because of her cooking and baking prowess, was asked to hang out for a tasting segment with actress and cupcake chef Lisa Lillien.
In the clip, Auntie Patti lifts one of the cupcakes and says, “This has paper on it,” before she smells it.
Lillien quips, “You can’t eat the paper.”
“Nope,” the appalled Grammy winner said, playing it off for the camera by saying. “But you can touch it with your hands.”
“That is true,” said Lillien as she goes on to explain the two types of cake mix that she uses.
While she speaks, Patti rolls her eyes and makes funny faces at the audacity of the chef to assume she'd eat the cupcake paper. “Eat the paper? Girl,” said LaBelle in a stunned tone.
Tyra Banks joined in the fun and asked, “What is Patti saying over there?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YVVe40bRC0
Lillien turns to the veteran vocalist and gets gobsmacked with the question everyone is just waiting for Patti to ask, “What makes you think I can eat the paper, boo?”
Instead of answering, Lillien responded to LaBelle as if she were a child. “Because you can’t eat the paper. No paper. Paper bad; cake good. You’re the one that asked me to eat the paper,” she said in a condescending tone.
Baffled that the woman still didn’t get it, LaBelle turned to the crowd and asked, “What’s wrong with her?”
In 2023, while appearing on another talk show, “The Jennifer Hudson Show,” LaBelle expressed was furious with the chef during the segment.
Miss Patti talking about the cupcake incident on Jennifer Hudson’s show last year 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/Oj2kl0F2xw
— yellow potato salad enthusiast (@qkfman) March 22, 2024
She told Hudson, “The girl thought I was gonna eat the pa
