Rachael Ray is not the homewrecker in the Jay Z-Beyoncé marriage, okay?

What a difference a few vowels can make. Celebrity chef and syndicated talk show host Rachael Ray had a very interesting weekend, thanks to the coincidental similarity her name bears to that of fashion designer Rachel Roy, the woman currently implicated as “Becky with the good hair” in the Jay Z-Beyoncé infidelity scandal. It’s the same kind of fluke one finds at the heart of Joel and Ethan Coen’s script for The Big Lebowski, except this happened in real life.
Over the weekend, to much fanfare, Beyoncé released her sixth solo LP, a “visual album” entitled Lemonade, the lyrics of which seem to allude frequently to marital indiscretions on the part of the singer’s husband, rapper-mogul Jay Z. One track in particular, “Sorry,” contains this memorable closing couplet: “He only want me when I’m not there / He better call Becky with the good hair.” Who was this Becky person, Beyoncé fans wondered? They seemingly got their answer when Roy, not Ray, posted this cryptic message (containing the phrase “Good hair don’t care”) to her Instagram account: