by Giada De Laurentiis separates from the Food Network.
After 21 years as a host and personality chef at the network, she will no longer collaborate on new projects there, and instead signed a multi-year deal to produce unscripted series with Amazon Studios. Expiration she was the first to report the news of her new deal.
In an exclusive statement, a Food Network spokesperson confirms the news to PEOPLE.
“Giada De Laurentiis is a culinary queen, someone who has been teaching audiences how to correctly pronounce every imaginable cut of pasta for nearly two decades. Food Network will always be proud of the beautiful content we have created together, and our table will always have an open table place for Giada,” says the spokesperson.
Reruns of De Laurentiis shows, including Jade at home AND Jade Entertainswill still be shown on Food Network and discovery+.
De Laurentiis shared the news in an Instagram post, which included a screenshot of Expirationof the announcement of its new agreement. “Great week! Super excited for what’s to come! @Amazonstudios,” she wrote in the caption.
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Her fellow chef friends shared their well wishes, including Alex Guarnaschelli, who captioned “Congratulations 😍.” The kitchen co-host, Katie Lee Biegel commented, “Yessss congratulations 🎉”.
In an Amazon Studios version shared with PEOPLE, the food TV veteran further expressed her excitement. “I can’t wait for this next chapter. I’ve been a long time Amazon fan and I’m excited about what we will achieve together,” she said.
Lauren Anderson, AVOD Head of Original Content and Programming at Amazon Studios, also shared that the company looks forward to developing an exciting slate of projects with Giada, as it expands into new areas and we expand our coveted slate. cooking and lifestyle content,” said Anderson.
A representative for De Laurentiis did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Second Expirationthe famous chef and cookbook author will not only star in new projects, but also an executive producer.
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The Emmy Award-winning chef has been a Food Network favorite since she joined in 2002. According to the Food Network website, she was discovered by a company executive after reading about her in a Food and wine item.
His first show under the network umbrella was Daily Italian where she shared meals inspired by her family and Italian background. After the successful launch, Jade at home premiered in 2008 and featured De Laurentiis cooking dishes for friends and family.
For the past two decades, she has also been starring Giada Entertains, Giada’s Holiday Manual, Giada in Italy AND Star of the Food Network.
Along with her cookbooks and restaurant in Las Vegas, De Laurentiis founded her own lifestyle brand, Giadzy, and most recently, Giada Catering, a catering company in Southern California, where she lives with her daughter, Jade and boyfriend, Shane Farley.
In 2018, the accomplished chef spoke to PEOPLE about her first TV debut. “It was very intimidating at first,” said the chef, who was working as a food stylist when Food Network recruited her to host Daily Italian with no prior camera experience.
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“I think I wasn’t open enough; I wasn’t sure enough,” she said. “Italian culture and Italian food were so much a part of my daily life that I didn’t realize that other people wouldn’t understand certain things.”
In the end he got carried away, but De Laurentiis will also never forget his first time on live television as a guest of the Today show.
“Al Roker was my host,” she said. “I made a grilled chicken with three different pestos, but it was actually the stylist who cooked the food…we get to the point where Al says, ‘Let’s taste this’ and cuts the chicken, which was raw on the inside!”
Now a pro at handling on-air mishaps, De Laurentiis said it’s “those terrifying moments [that] they end up being the things that can change your career.”
