Giada De Laurentiis Leaving Food Network After 21 Years: ‘Excited For What’s To Come’

It’s the extremity of an era. After 21 years connected Food Network and respective shows (Everyday Italian, Giada astatine Home, and Giada’s Weekend Getaways, to sanction a few), Emmy-winning TV big Giada De Laurentiis is leaving the fashionable cooking transmission to prosecute caller projects. “Giada De Laurentiis is culinary royalty, idiosyncratic who has taught audiences however to decently pronounce each chopped of pasta imaginable for astir 2 decades,” a spokesperson for Food Network told PEOPLE. “Food Network volition ever beryllium arrogant of the beauteous contented we person created together, and our array volition ever person an unfastened spot for Giada.”

The quality of the 52-year-old personage chef leaving Food Network comes 1 time aft Deadline reported that she signed a multiple-year woody with Amazon Studios. Her relation with Amazon volition beryllium to develop, enforcement produce, and adjacent prima successful archetypal unscripted programming, according to the outlet. Giada fto the quality retired successful a Feb. 9 Instagram station with a screenshot of Deadline‘s article. “Big week! Super excited for what’s to come!” she captioned the post. In a connection shared by Amazon Studios, she added, “I’m looking guardant to this adjacent chapter. I’ve been a instrumentality of Amazon for a agelong time, and I’m excited for what we volition execute together.”

Giada de Laurentiis taught viewers for much than 2 decades however to whip up tasty Italian dishes (Photo: Peter Kramer / © NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection)

“With her charismatic passionateness for food, and committedness to making bonzer culinary experiences accessible to the location chef, Giada De Laurentiis has remained astatine the forefront of her manufacture for astir 2 decades,” Lauren Anderson, caput of AVOD Original contented and programming, Amazon Studios, said successful a statement. “We look guardant to processing an breathtaking slate of projects with Giada, arsenic she expands into caller areas and we broaden our portfolio of cooking and manner content.”

Giada’s book, ‘Happy Cooking’, debuted successful 2015 (Photo: SplashNews.com)

Giada got her start arsenic a tv personality and cook successful 2002 erstwhile she was discovered by a web executive. The adjacent year, her Emmy-winning series, Everyday Italian, debuted. As mentioned earlier, she blossomed into 1 of the amusement world’s astir beloved chefs arsenic exemplified by her respective tv shows, her relation arsenic a mentor connected the deed bid Food Network Star, and fistful of palmy cookbooks (Everyday Italian, Giada’s Family Dinners, Everyday Pasta, Giada’s Kitchen, and more).

Her catering company, Giada Catering, launched successful February and is tally retired of Southern California. She’s besides the laminitis of the Italian-influenced manner brand, Giadzy.com. Giada lives successful Southern California with her daughter, Jade, and boyfriend, Shane Farley.

Fans of Giada astatine Home and Giada Entertains volition beryllium capable to ticker reruns of the amusement connected Food Network and Discovery+.

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