Young & Hungry is a comedy about a man and a woman who should be together, but just can’t seem to make it happen. On the first episode, Josh (Jonathan Sadowski) hired Gabi (Emily Osment) to be his personal Chef. The first night she cooked for him, they had a little too much to drink and slept together. Only problem, he’s engaged. The two of them decided to keep their relationship strictly a professional one.
As the season went on, Gabi and Josh started to grow feelings for each other, but he was getting married. She wound meeting a new guy and Josh set the date for his nuptials. Then as his big day approached, he realized he was with the wrong woman, but it was too late because Gabi left on plane with that other man.
She finally returned to San Fransisco, but she was still with that other guy who was half way around the world. Eventually, she realized she still liked Josh. But it wasn’t enough, so they continued to date other people…a lot of other people.
Then when last season ended, she was dating a new guy, Josh’s brother. But a grand gesture on Josh’s part made her re-evaluate how she felt about him. So when he showed up where she was at, she knew what she had to do. And that gets you caught up to tonight’s episode on Freeform at 8p.
Does Emily Osment want Josh and Gabi to get together and make it work? She recently told me when I visited the set, “I don’t want them to get together because I feel like it is that Rachel and Ross old tale of once they are together, the audience is satisfied and then what? Then you are just in a happy relationship and that is not good TV.” Then she added, “I think the writers are doing a very smart of job of planning when they get together, planning how long they are going to be together, what is going to tear them apart and who is going to be next. With Gabi there is always somebody, which I find very hilarious.”
Another thing she is enjoying, is the changes to the show since ABC Family became Freeform a few weeks ago. She revealed how it has changed the show, “We are pushing the limit now that we are on Freeform. The things we are able to do, the bracket has widened a little bit and we are taking that to our full advantage.” What does that mean? She said, “Well there’s a little more nudity. It’s a little more suggestive. It’s played more real.” Explaining, “If you think about it, anybody who’s dating in their 20’s and 30’s, come across a lot of topics that are sex related. I think we are kind of exploring that a little bit more. Which is funny because obviously we are a comedy and we are not going to play anything to real but the jokes that we make involving sex are pretty hysterical.”
If you thought Young & Hungry was pretty hysterical beforehand, it is even going to be even more hysterical this season. I don’t know how they are going to make this hysterical show even more hysterical, but I know that they will. That is enough of a reason to tune in.
Before Jonathan Sadowski was running to the airport to declare his love for Gabi on Young & Hungry, he was asking for asylum in the United States because he was gay on LAX. He looks the same now as he did when he was 24 in that 2004 episode.
Young & Hungry is back tonight at 8p on the same network but with a different name, ABC Family is now Freeform. I recently sat with the show’s star Jonathan Sadowski, who plays the multi-millionaire businessman Josh Kaminski, and he told me how that name change is going to affect his deliciously sweet sitcom. He said, “The show has been a little edgy for ABC Family, but we are definitely pushing the envelope this season. There are some scenes that are jaw dropping scenes.”
When I asked him if he could give me a hint, he said, “Scantily clad people!” Can we expect those scantily people to be Gabi (Emily Osment) and him finally together? He responded with, “You can expect that, whether it is going to happen or not, you are just going to have to tune in to see on season 3.” So what it is going on between the boss and his chef’s, on again, off again, in love with someone else, in love with another person and in love with that other person, relationship? He revealed, “I think it is evidently clear that we’ve expressed our feelings for each other over and over, just a series of near misses. I think if and when it happens, the writers know what they are doing.”
Sadowski loves the character that the writers created for him. He told me, “I mean who doesn’t like to get to play a multi-millionaire who is a big kid that loves toys gadgets.” Then he added, “I definitely share a lot of traits with Josh. We are big kids at heart, both kind of geeky. We are loyal to a fault, always protecting our friends and family. He’s a great character to play, I love it.” Why does he love it so much? He gleefully explained why, “I love playing Josh because he is a guy that people root for. Like I said he is loyal to a fault. He is honest. He is genuinely a great guy. Don’t get me it is wrong, it fun to play a villain too. This is a guy you want to be friends with. This is a guy you want to win. This is the guy you want to see wind up with the girl.”
Will he wind up with the girl? We will just have to keep tuning in every Wednesday at 8p to see if he gets Gabi. And if he doesn’t get her, then who will he get? He is definitely a catch for all the reasons that he listed and so many more.
Young & Hungry is back on ABC Family tonight at 8p. When we last left Gabi (Emily Osment) she was beginning an internship in Switzerland with a top chef. During tonight’s summer premiere, we find out how Gabi is doing at her new job overseas. Since it is Gabi, she has burned down the restaurant she was working at and she was fired. Now that she is back in the US, she is jobless.
Josh (Jonathan Sadowski) needs to eat, so he hired a new chef. That means she can’t go back to him. Thankfully, she gets a job with Josh’s neighbor. How awkward will that be for Gabi and Josh? You will just have to tune into this scrumptious comedy to find out. It gets better and better with each episode, so you will want to tune in.
And can someone please tell me why ABC Family hasn’t paired this show up with Baby Daddy yet? They are the network’s best comedies and deserve to air together. Who is with me?
Ashley Tisdale was on Conan O’Brien’s yesterday and she admitted to the TBS late night host that she has a girl crush on Jessica Lowndes. In fact, when she needed to cast someone to be her former girlfriend on the show she produces, she made sure to hire the star of A Deadly Adoption as her love interest on ABC Family’s Young & Hungry.
She then told Conan, “I got to kiss her, that was a lot of fun.” Then she added, “It was fun for my husband too!” I wonder who had the most fun when the two of them locked lips, Ashley or her husband? That night, I would say, it was easily a tie! Maybe a three way tie?
If you want to see the kiss between Ashley Tisdale and Jessica Lowndes, then click here!
