

Open-air homes with an outside-inside feel. How do you define California style? Yoga pants, t-shirts, and hoodies with cool sneakers (think Yeezy, Kanye West’s line). We went for my mom’s 80th-birthday celebration and are still talking about it five years later, for its California cuisine and healthy eating done in the most scrumptious way. The food, the service, the setting-amazing. If you could decree an official state culinary experience, what would it be? Hands down, The French Laundry in Yountville. I hear it’s amazing, and I’ve never been. (Guess who got the middle seat? Me!) This time, I’d like it to be more of a romantic getaway with my husband. I want to do the drive myself now-preferably in my convertible, and not with my parents in the front and me and my two sisters squished in the back. I made the beautiful drive when I was a kid with my family in the 1970s. Time for a road trip-where are you going? Up Highway One to Big Sur. What is your favourite Golden State splurge? A convertible car-with the California sunshine and this weather, I just couldn’t resist. What is the stereotype that most holds true? That some of us are Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

What is the biggest misperception about Californians? That we are all Spicoli (Sean Penn’s character) from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. And Malibu-seeing dolphins never gets old! Who or what is your greatest California love? The Hollywood Bowl. (I also loved Beverly Hills 90210 and am still looking for the Peach Pit!) But also, it’s so central and an easy commute to work and school and is beautiful. Beverly Hills seemed to me like a magical place where stars live. Why there? Because I loved when Lucille Ball visited Beverly Hills on I Love Lucy and saw William Holden and was star struck. A busy mom and devoted yogi who speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, Chen somehow finds time to host the long-running hit reality show Big Brother as well-and she also sat down to take the California Questionnaire.
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After various high-profile stints as a TV producer, reporter, and anchor, Chen settled in as host and moderator of The Talk, CBS' Daytime Emmy Award–winning talk show, for eight years before departing in 2018. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Chen was born in New York City and attended college at the University of Southern California, where she studied broadcast journalism and English. And she doesn’t have one favourite attraction at Disneyland Resort-she has 10. And a favourite California song? Actually, she has four. Does she have a favourite California food experience? Absolutely. Given the fact that Julie Chen was formerly a host on a show called The Talk, it only follows that she has plenty to say about, well, everything.
