publisher of Lampanelli's memoir, Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks (2009). Publishers Weekly reviewed: Personal life Lampanelli married in 1991 and divorced soon afterward. She married Jimmy Cannizzaro, a former tavern owner from Valley Stream, New York, on October 2, 2010, at the New York Friars' Club. In May 2014, she filed for divorce from Cannizzaro after three and a half years of marriage. Lampanelli is a supporter of nonheterosexual and transgender people. When members of the Westboro Baptist Church planned to protest against a show she held on May 20, 2011, in Topeka, Kansas, she promised to donate $1,000 to Gay Men's Health Crisis (the same charity she contributed to during The Celebrity Apprentice) for every protester that attended. After an initial count of 44 protesters, she rounded the donation to an even $50,000, crediting the donation as being "made possible by the WBC." References External links 1961 births Actresses from Connecticut American film actresses American people of Italian descent American people of Polish descent American stand-up comedians American television actresses American women comedians Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni Ethnic humour Former Roman Catholics Harvard University alumni HIV/AIDS activists American LGBT rights activists Living people People from Trumbull, Connecticut Syracuse University alumni 20th-century American comedians 21st-century American comedians Participants in American reality television series The Apprentice (franchise) contestants 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses