Valerie Bertinelli is disillusioned in many Food Network shows 3 months after the TV broadcast channel fired her from Kids Baking Championship.
“I fell in love with Food Network 20 years ago as a result of all of the amazing ITK (within the kitchen) shows. 30-minute foods, Ina [Garten], Giada [De Laurentiis] … the record goes on,” Bertinelli, 63, wrote by way of Threads on Tuesday, April 9. “I realized such a lot. It’s sad it’s now not about cooking and learning any further. Oh smartly, that’s just business, other people.”
Bertinelli additionally agreed with cookbook creator and food blogger Marlynn Schotland, who lamented by way of the platform that Food Network now not has cooking shows and has switched to basically making culinary pageant methods.
Schotland later clarified that Food Network still has “a couple of” cooking shows and doesn’t “think we need SO MANY new competition shows” which can be repetitive of each other.
Bertinelli, for her part, has a protracted history with Food Network. She hosted Valerie’s Home Cooking between 2015 and 2025, modernizing her favorite circle of relatives recipes. She additionally served as a judge of Kids Baking Championship for 12 seasons and was fired in January because of price range cuts.
“I’ve been fending off dealing with what I were given affirmation final night and I didn’t need to speak about it ultimate night time [as a result of] I wanted to sleep on it because it truly hurt my emotions,” she said in an Instagram video. “I are aware of it’s now not supposed to. Logically, I realize it’s trade [and] price range cuts, proper? But it in point of fact harm my emotions to know that I’m not going to be requested again to be on Kids Baking Championship.”
She endured, “[That] used to be my apex yr of hell, like, I was going through it and pretending the whole lot was once just effective. Because that’s what you do! And without sounding like a drama queen, the show saved my lifestyles.”
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Bertinelli filmed her final episodes of Kids Baking Championship in summer season 2022, around the similar time that she filed for divorce from then-husband Tom Vitale. The actress and Vitale finalized their divorce in November 2022.
“Working with all the ones in point of fact wonderful other people and feeling productive and figuring out I may just unfold some kindness and now not just wallow in my hell and just attempt to keep my head above water,” Bertinelli noted in her social media video previous this 12 months. “[The display] helped me; it used to be like a flotation device. So, it in reality hurts that I won’t be capable of return and spot everyone and say, ‘Hey, I made it via!’ I think I’m [the] maximum unhappy that I gained’t be capable to inform everyone what they imply to me.”
Since her divorce, Bertinelli has found love once more. She revealed in a March interview with USA Today that she’s been courting a “very special” man.
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