Giada De Laurentiis was the host of Food Network's program called Giada at Home.
32 Facts About Giada De Laurentiis
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Giada De Laurentiis appears regularly as a contributor and guest co-host on NBC's program entitled Today.
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De Laurentiis is the founder of the catering business GDL Foods.
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Giada De Laurentiis is a winner of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host and the Gracie Award for Best Television Host.
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Giada De Laurentiis was recognized by the International Hospitality Institute as one of the Global 100 in Hospitality, a list featuring the 100 Most Powerful People in Global Hospitality.
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Giada Pamela De Benedetti was born on August 22,1970, in Rome, Italy, the eldest child of actress Veronica De Laurentiis and her first husband, actor-producer Alex De Benedetti.
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Giada De Laurentiis's parents were married in February 1970 but were later divorced.
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Giada De Laurentiis's siblings include sister Eloisa, a makeup artist, and brothers Igor and Dino Alexander II, a Hollywood film editor who died of melanoma in 2003.
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De Laurentiis studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, with aspirations of becoming a pastry chef.
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Giada De Laurentiis's daytime cooking show on the Food Network, Everyday Italian, premiered April 5,2003.
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De Laurentiis began hosting Behind the Bash in October 2005.
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In January 2007, a third De Laurentiis-hosted show, Giada's Weekend Getaways, debuted on Food Network.
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In 2007, De Laurentiis appeared as a presenter at the inaugural Food Network Awards.
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De Laurentiis made several appearances as a guest judge on the third season of The Next Food Network Star, which aired in 2007.
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Giada De Laurentiis joined fellow chef Bobby Flay as a judge in season 7 of Food Network Star and took on a new role in season 8 as a team leader of five cooks competing against Bobby Flay's and Alton Brown's respective teams.
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In 2009, De Laurentiis became the voice of "Paulette", a character on the animated children's show Handy Manny.
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In early 2010, De Laurentiis came out with a line of kitchen supplies, exclusively for Target.
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In June 2010, De Laurentiis became a regularly appearing mentor to the finalists on the popular Food Network competition show The Next Food Network Star.
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In July 2014, De Laurentiis opened her first restaurant, called GIADA, inside The Cromwell in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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In 2014, De Laurentiis voiced the character of Gelata in the US version of the Tinker Bell special Pixie Hollow Bake Off.
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On June 26,2020, De Laurentiis' Food Network series Giada Entertains won a Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Culinary Series.
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On July 26,2020, De Laurentiis won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Culinary Host.
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On February 10,2023, De Laurentiis has signed a multi-year deal to create and produce unscripted programming with Amazon Studios.
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De Laurentiis had a range of products made exclusively for Target.
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In 2013, ceramic lasagna pans under the Giada De Laurentiis brand were recalled after they cracked and at least six people were injured.
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De Laurentiis has two restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Giada De Laurentiis opened her first restaurant in May 2014.
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The restaurant, simply called "Giada De Laurentiis", is located in the Cromwell.
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Giada De Laurentiis opened a second restaurant in early 2018.
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In July 2017, she announced she would be opening a restaurant in the Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore, Maryland, just north of Washington, DC It is called GDL Italian by Giada De Laurentiis, and opened in May 2018.
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On May 25,2003, De Laurentiis married Todd Thompson, a fashion designer.
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The couple's only child, Jade Marie De Laurentiis-Thompson, was born on March 29,2008.