Cathy Mitchell

Cathy Mitchell is an American author and television personality known for hosting "As seen on TV" infomercials. She was among the first infomercial hosts to emerge after the FCC began to allow program-length advertisements in the 1980s.

Career Mitchell is best known for hosting television infomercials for a wide range of products, such as the Chef-O-Matic Pro, the Sideshow Skillet, the Fry Pro 2, and the Turbo Cooker. She filmed her first infomercial in 1989, advertising the Snakmaster sandwich press. Mitchell chose to receive her payment as a commission on each unit sold, and the Snakmaster was highly successful. In 2014, Cathy Mitchell was featured on the Rachael Ray show. She participated in a Coffee Off with fellow pitchman Marc Gill which she lost by .

Cookbooks

Mitchell is the author of a number of cookbooks. Her first was Dump Cakes, a small book of recipes for dump cakes – cobbler-like desserts which are easily prepared by "dumping" fruit and packaged cake mix into a pan without mixing. It was published in 2014 by TeleBrands.