<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Valerie Bertinelli</a> made some negative remarks about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tv">The Food Network</a> several months after she was let go from the channel&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/reality-tv">reality</a> cooking competition series, &#8220;Kids Baking Championship.&#8221;
&#8220;I fell in love with Food Network two decades ago because of all the amazing ITK [in the kitchen] shows,&#8221; the 63-year-old star <a href="https://www.threads.net/@wolfiesmom/post/C5jRn9pP4Uv">wrote</a> on the social media app Threads, calling out Rachael Ray&#8217;s show &#8220;30-Minute Meals,&#8221; Ina Garten of &#8220;Barefoot Contessa&#8221; fame, and &#8220;Giada at Home&#8221; star Giada De Laurentiis specifically.
&#8220;I learned so much. It’s sad it’s not about cooking and learning any longer. Oh well, that’s just business, folks.&#8221;
Her comments came in response to a Thread by cookbook author Marlynn Schotland. She wrote, &#8220;I miss actual cooking shows on @foodnetwork. Remember those? Do you know what this world does NOT need? Yet another cooking competition show.&#8221;
Bertinelli previously hosted a Food Network cooking show, “Valerie’s Home Kitchen,” from 2015 until 2023. She also hosted &#8220;Kids Baking Championship&#8221; for 12 seasons before unexpectedly not being invited back in January, which at the time she said, “really hurt my feelings.&#8221;
“It really sucks,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/valerie-bertinelli-reacts-to-being-dropped-from-kids-baking-championship-really-hurt-my-feelings">said</a> in a lengthy video post at the time.
 She went on to describe how she was on the show during her “apex year of hell” as she was going through a divorce from Tom Vitale.
“Like I was going through it and pretending everything was just fine, because that’s what you do,” she said of filming season 12.
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“And, without sounding like a drama queen, the show saved my life. Working with all those really wonderful people and feeling productive and knowing I could spread some kindness and not just wallow in my hell and just try to keep my head above water, it helped me, it was like a flotation device,” Bertinelli continued. “So it really hurts that I won’t be able to go back and see everybody and say ‘Hey, I made it through, hi!’”
“And to all the bakers that are coming in for the new season, even though I won’t be there, I’ll be there with you in spirit and I just want you to remember this: You are there for a reason. You’re some of the best bakers in America right now. And if you don’t make it to the next round, please always remember this, it’s not because you’re not a good baker, you just had a bad day,” she concluded.

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