Valerie Bertinelli Gets Emotional Over Food Network Firing
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00:00 It really hurt my feelings to know that I'm not going to be asked back
00:03 to be on Kids Baking Championship. It really sucks.
00:08 Valerie Bertinelli getting emotional after revealing she was let go from a job.
00:13 It is really emotional.
00:14 The star says she was not asked back as co-host of the Food Network series Kids Baking Championship.
00:20 One hour left, bakers.
00:22 Blondie hopscotch puzzles.
00:24 Valerie getting candid about the news on Instagram.
00:27 It really hurt my feelings and I know it's not supposed to.
00:31 Logically, I know that it's business. Budget cuts, right?
00:35 Val appeared alongside co-host Duff Goldman since the show premiered in 2015
00:40 and now says the competition series helped her through a difficult time in her life.
00:44 The episodes that are airing right now, I shot back in the summer of 2022,
00:49 which was my apex year of hell.
00:53 The show saved my life. It just, working with all of those really wonderful people and feeling
01:00 productive and knowing I could spread some kindness and not just wallow in my hell and
01:08 just try to keep my head above water. It helped me. It was like a flotation device.
01:12 And become a part of the Food Network family. It's a fun place to be a family.
01:15 Knowing what a difference it made to her,
01:17 Valerie goes on to explain what she'll miss about the show.
01:20 I think I'm just most sad that I won't be able to tell everybody what they mean to me.
01:24 Les and Duff and that camera crew, sound crew, art department, that kitchen crew.
01:33 Oh my God, these people work so hard to give you an amazing show.
01:39 And all of those kid bakers that I got to watch grow up. I feel so lucky.
01:44 So I mean, working with Valerie, it's amazing because, you know,
01:47 like I'm a chef and I'm not really good.
01:49 I'm a really good one.
01:50 No, I'm all right. I'm all right. But like, I'm not very good in front of the camera. And like,
01:54 being with Valerie, like, I'm so good at this stuff.
01:56 Pie and ice cream. Does anything go better together?
01:59 Me and you.
02:00 Besides you and me? On the same wavelength.
02:04 Valerie, not the only one upset by the news.
02:06 Khloe Kardashian hopping in the comments to share how devastated she is.
02:10 Genuinely, I cannot believe it.
02:12 In a heartfelt message, the reality star writes, "I love this show and watch it daily.
02:17 I love you and Duff together and it will be hard to imagine it without you."
02:21 Adding Valerie's presence with the children is magical and her advice to them is key.
02:25 This isn't the first time Val's made an emotional confession on social media.
02:30 Health is not a body size. Health is not that number you see on a scale.
02:35 Last year, the actress opened up about coming across some clothes with a sentimental meaning.
02:39 I found the clothes I was wearing in my very first before picture for Jenny Craig.
02:46 It was these. This pink shirt and these jeans.
02:50 I thought I was fat the last time I wore these clothes.
02:54 I've never felt more beautiful, more at peace, more mentally and emotionally stable
03:00 than I do today and I'm wearing my fat clothes. That's f***ed up.
03:05 We can all be our own ideal size. We're not an ideal size isn't what the
03:09 media or the fashion magazines tell us that we are.
03:13 In the caption, she reflected on how her perspective about weight loss has changed,
03:17 writing in part, "It's nice to see how far I've come emotionally. I am enough."
03:22 I'm not going to obsess over the scale anymore. It never, no matter what that number was,
03:27 it never made me happy. Even if it was never small enough and if it was too big,
03:30 I didn't want to see anybody. So it's not going to run my life any longer at all.
03:34 [Music]