Chef Bobby Flay is leaving Food Network after giving his life’s 27 years almost. The news made everyone surprise, he helped to grow the Food Network starting in 1994.
Bobby Flay Career at Food Network
In 1994, Bobby joined the food network and helped the network to spread around. In 2018, he renewed his contract with Food Network. Moreover, his contract ends with the Food Network in 2021.
At that time, the channel’s president Courtney White said, “Bobby Flay is a culinary superstar in every regard, and we are thrilled to be able to continue this extraordinary and productive partnership. Bobby has a unique way of inviting audiences to experience food through the lens of his own passion. He’s both an expert and approachable, someone, most people feel they know and can trust to steer their own culinary curiosities.”
During his career with Food Network, Flay has done so many programs on the network and hosted them. He started with grilling shows that turned out to be hit, there are many such as Off the Grill with Bobby Flay, Food Nation, BBQ with Bobby Flay, Grillin’ & Chillin’, Boy Meets Grill. The network gained a lot of success that started doing food competition-style programs, and Flay added his hard work and talent to the network and raised ratings. He had done all these programs, Throwdown! With Bobby Flay, Worst Cooks in America, and Beat Bobby Flay, and Bobby’s Dinner Battle.
Bobby is an owner of restaurants of Mesa Grill, Bobby Flay Steak, Gato, and Shark as well as he has published a lot of cookbooks such as Bobby Flay Fit, Brunch at Bobby’s, Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain Cookbook, Bobby Flay’s Barbeque Addiction, Bobby Flay’s Burgers, Fries & Shakes, and Bobby Flay’s Grill It!
Why is Bobby leaving?
Variety has found that Flay will be leaving after his contract ends. The reason for his leaving seems money. Sources have revealed to Variety, “the sides were far apart on financial terms.” Officially, there is no information from Food Network and Flay.
The chef has many fans as anyone can see him easily doing his job. Flay has changed American views, the way they used to see kitchen professionals as blue-collar workers. Now, he is a celebrity and has changed the tag which people used to put.
Bobby’s fans are very disappointed as they won’t get to see him again on the Food Network anymore.
One of his fans tweeted that, “Bobby Flay and food network parting ways? “This feels like when Paul and Barnabas broke up.” His fans still can’t believe he is leaving.
Bobby Flay’s Net Worth
Bobby is a very popular personality on television, he has published his cookbooks, he owns many restaurants as well. His net worth is around $60 million. He started his career by doing a job at a pizza parlor. He appeared in television shows and movies as well.