Giada De Laurentiis Biography
Giada De Laurentiis is a television personality, author, and Italian-American chef. She was the host of Giada at Home on the Food Network. She is also a regular contributor and guest co-host on NBC Today. De Laurentiis is the owner of GDL Foods, a catering company. She is a Daytime Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Lifestyle Host and a Gracie Award winner for Best Television Host.
How old is Giada De Laurentiis? – Age
She is 51 years old as of 22 August 2021. She was born in 1970 in Rome, Italy. Her real name is Giada Pamela De Laurentiis.
Giada De Laurentii Family
Benedetti is the eldest child of Veronica De Laurentiis and her first husband, actor-producer Alex De Benedetti. Giada’s maternal grandfather, film producer Dino De Laurentiis, was a close friend of De Benedetti. As a child, Giada was frequently found in the family kitchen and spent a lot of time at her grandfather’s restaurant, the DDL Food show. Her parents married in February 1970 but divorced a year later. Giada and her siblings moved to Southern California after her parents divorced and took their mother’s surname.
Her maternal great-grandmother was English, and her grandmother was film star Silvana Mangano, who was British-Italian. Sister Eloisa, a makeup artist, and brothers Igor and Dino Alexander II, a Hollywood film editor who died of melanoma in 2003, are among her siblings. Ivan Kavalsky, her stepfather, is a producer.
Giada De Laurentii Husband
She married fashion designer Todd Thompson on May 25, 2003. Jade Marie De Laurentiis-Thompson, the couple’s only child, was born on March 29, 2008. De Laurentiis announced on her website on December 29, 2014, that she and Todd had separated in July and had decided to end their marriage. On September 3, 2015, the divorce was finalized. She has been romantically involved with TV producer Shane Farley since November 2015.
What is Giada’s salary?
She earns an annual salary of $20 million.
Giada De Laurentii Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $35 million.
Giada De Laurentii Restaurants
On the Las Vegas Strip, De Laurentiis owns two restaurants. In May of 2014, she opened her first restaurant. The restaurant, simply known as “Giada,” is located in Cromwell. In early 2018, she opened a second restaurant. “Pronto by Giada,” which has taken up residence in Caesars Palace, is a fast-casual dining establishment. She announced in July 2017 that she would be opening a restaurant in the Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C. Giada’s GDL Italian restaurant opened in May 2018.
Giada De Laurentii Career
She studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, hoping to become a pastry chef. She returned to the United States and worked as a professional chef in several Los Angeles restaurants, including the Wolfgang Puck-owned Spago. She later worked as a food stylist and was approached by the Food Network in 2002 after styling a piece in Food & Wine magazine.
Everyday Italian, her Food Network daytime cooking show, debuted on April 5, 2003. She stated on Chefography, a Food Network biography show, that she never wanted to be in her “family business” of show business, and that she felt awkward in front of the camera when she first began hosting Everyday Italian. When the show first aired, the Food Network received mail accusing it of hiring a model or actress to pose as a chef instead of a real chef. In October 2005, De Laurentiis began hosting Behind the Bash. The show delves into the catering process for large-scale events such as the Grammy Awards. Giada’s Weekend Getaways, a third show hosted by De Laurentiis, premiered on Food Network in January 2007. De Laurentiis travels to a featured location and visits her favorite local culinary destinations on this show. De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay competed against, and were defeated by, Rachael Ray and Mario Batali on an episode of Iron Chef America in November 2006.
De Laurentiis was a presenter at the first Food Network Awards in 2007. In June 2007, she hosted a two-part Food Network special called Giada in Paradise, which featured the Greek island of Santorini and the Italian island of Capri. De Laurentiis also appeared as a guest judge on The Next Food Network Star’s third season, which aired in 2007. Town & Country magazine dubbed her a “petite powerhouse” that year, describing her height as “just under five-foot two.” She received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host in 2008.
De Laurentiis and the Barilla Group launched the Academia Barilla Italian gourmet line in 2008—Barilla’s first gourmet celebrity product line. Giada at Home debuted the same year, depicting De Laurentiis in a kitchen preparing meals and parties for family and friends. The show is shot on a set that resembles her own home. In season 7, she joined fellow chef Bobby Flay as a judge on Food Network Star, and in season 8, she took on a new role as a team leader of five cooks competing against Bobby Flay’s and Alton Brown’s respective teams.
De Laurentiis was cast as “Paulette,” a character on the animated children’s show Handy Manny, in 2009. De Laurentiis launched a line of kitchen supplies exclusively for Target in early 2010. That same year, CafeMom ranked her sixth on their annual list of the “Sexiest Moms Alive.” De Laurentiis began mentoring the finalists on the popular Food Network competition show The Next Food Network Star in June 2010. De Laurentiis opened her first restaurant, GIADA, inside The Cromwell in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 2014. Seating is available in the dining room, lounge, or on the outdoor patio, with views of the Bellagio fountains and Caesars Palace. De Laurentiis voiced Gelata in the US version of the Tinker Bell special in 2014. She appeared as herself in the 2018 film Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost. She won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Culinary Host in 2020.
