Bobby Flay is out at Food Network
By NJ Chicaa
@NJChicaa (116124)
United States
October 8, 2021 3:23pm CST
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay has been at Food Network for 27 years but he and the network couldn't come to terms for compensation during recent contract negotiations so the network ended them. He will be done when his current contract expires.
He is one of my favorite chefs on the network. It is a shame that Food Network keeps letting really great chefs go and bringing in new people who just don't have the same cooking chops. There are no more shows from Alex Guarnaschelli, Giada de Laurentiis, Anne Burrell (she now hosts a competition show), etc. Paula Deen and Mario Batali lost their shows due to legal/personal issues. They now have legit unknowns in their weekend morning lineup and I have never seen anything that they've made that I wanted to make myself.
I've seen Bobby Flay in: Iron Chef America, Beat Bobby Flay, Barbecue Addiction, Bobby & Giada in Italy, Chopped, Throwdown!, and Brunch at Bobby's. He was in other shows as well but I just never saw them.
He has restaurants around the country and several published cookbooks. I just received his "Beat Bobby Flay" cookbook this afternoon. Haven't even cracked it open yet. I'm pretty sure he has more money than he will ever need but food TV has been a huge part of his life so I can only imagine that he will land on another network.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/07/bobby-flay-is-leaving-the-food-network-after-27-years/
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@snowy22315 (170464)
• United States
8 Oct 21
Me thinks Flay is a bit too big for his britches. He has plenty of revenue streams, why does he have to exploit Food Network?
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@snowy22315 (170464)
• United States
8 Oct 21
@NJChicaa He doesn't need one. It isn't like he is curing cancer. He is a cook for God's Sake!
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
8 Oct 21
I see Alex Guarnaschelli on The Kitchen.
There will no longer be Beat Bobby Flay? Not that I watched every episode of every season but whenever I did watch it it was really good.
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
8 Oct 21
@NJChicaa I didn't know she had her own show.
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@MarieCoyle (28983)
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8 Oct 21
@NJChicaa I loved the one show she had, Worst Cooks in America. It was hysterical!
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
9 Oct 21
I'm sure he will find a new gig soon enough.
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@kaylachan (58203)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Oct 21
That's a long time to be oon one single network. I'm sure we won't see the last of him, though.
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@FourWalls (62436)
• United States
9 Oct 21
Wow, I wonder what will happen…to the Food Network, not to Bobby!
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@Deepizzaguy (94864)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
8 Oct 21
It seems to be a trend to release the good persons in the Food Network since the celebrity does not have the power to grab the target audience of 18-49 year old persons,
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@LindaOHio (157150)
• United States
9 Oct 21
Maybe these big names are asking for too much. The FN figures they can get unknowns in for much less and have people with less demands.
