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Giada's mom?

house_cat — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 23:34:49 GMT

Does anyone know if Giada's mother is alive? I heard the promo for her Italy show this morning and I thought I heard her say something about her mom. I couldn't stay to watch the show.

I'm asking because she always cooks with her aunt Raffi. I assumed her mother had passed. Does anyone know who she is?

Re: Giada's mom?

Dazlin — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 23:45:27 GMT

Her mother passed, as I understand. She also lost a young brother to skin cancer. I guess you can google her and see what you find.

Also...did anyone hear if she's still with her husband? Thought I heard something about a split???

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MariotaMurielle — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:23:34 GMT

I saw the "Giada In Italy" show this morning and her mother was on the show. they were having a family gathering at a restaurant and Giada said something about having her mom and stepfather there, and they showed her mother sitting at a table.

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Alsee — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 01:49:49 GMT

Her Mother is still alive - Giada and her husband are divorcing

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redhead65 — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 02:37:15 GMT

Yes, as I heard it, she is divorcing HIM !

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proudlyfromNJ — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:46:37 GMT

Her mother is alive and did appear on the show yesterday from Italy. She has been on the show but not as often as Aunt Raffi.

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ciao_bella — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 13:05:15 GMT

@keithsmom65 wrote:

Yes, as I heard it, she is divorcing HIM !

Not a big fan of Giada..but I have noticed when she's appeared on the Next Food Network Star her dresses were so short... more like tunic tops and always very low cut. Maybe her way of saying..I'm single again!

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Arley1210 — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 14:33:00 GMT

I heard the opposite!!! HE is divorcing her. Rumors abound she was running around!!!!!

Arley

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carmela soprano — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 17:32:27 GMT

The "rumors" are:

HE is divorcing HER.....she's been rumored to have had "affairs" with both Bobby Flay and Matt Lauer.

Her Italy location gives her time for the custody battle to be played out.

(Her father, of course, was the movie producer, Dino DeLaurentis ).

The mother is alive....

the entire DeLaurentis family is on location in Italy...the stress is on "family" so that Giada wins "points" in the custody battle.

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proudlyfromNJ — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 17:49:01 GMT

Dino was Giada's grandfather, her mother's father.

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surfk — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:32:42 GMT

The husband is divorcing her. Seems Giada has a biiiiig appetite which extends further than the kitchen.

She used to always wear his clothing line on air. Now she's trying to be more real by coming to the stove in anything but a flowy Malibu maxi-sundress. lol

Her mother apparently is alive but it always seems that Giada keeps her family a bit at a distance. But then, how many people can even fit into a room with such an ego as Giada's? I guess they can all gather in the doorway and peek into the room as to watch Giada's ego go at.

If she's going to pronounce, "spaghetti", "speee-gheeey-tiiii" as if she just came off the set of a Roman "Ragu" commercial, she ought to pronounce all of the other Italian words with so much gusto, too.

I recall her once snap at her aunt on camera. It was as the aunt tried to say that the recipe her niece had stolen, er, was making was from her grandmother. Giada shut that aunt down so fast you'd think she was about to make a panini out of the lady's hand if it got close enough to touch the counter top.

And if she hand-feeds her kid one more time on camera like she's visiting a petting zoo... We get it. You're a mother. And she's your child. (Try not to hand-feed the girl her first piece of wedding cake, 'k, Giada??).

Something' about Giada just ticks me off. lol

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house_cat — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 22:26:09 GMT

@surfk wrote:

Something' about Giada just ticks me off. lol

Um.. I picked up on that, lol. Some people just rub us the wrong way. In my case, it's the farm lady, Nancy Fuller. I simply can't stand her personality. She may be a lovely woman in person, but that doesn't matter because she turns me off.

I'm sorry to hear about the divorce. I have no horse in the race, of course, but divorce, in general, is very disturbing to me. I always wish for happily ever afters and they seem to be less and less common these days.

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ciao_bella — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:21:08 GMT

@surfk wrote:
The husband is divorcing her. Seems Giada has a biiiiig appetite which extends further than the kitchen.

She used to always wear his clothing line on air. Now she's trying to be more real by coming to the stove in anything but a flowy Malibu maxi-sundress. lol

Her mother apparently is alive but it always seems that Giada keeps her family a bit at a distance. But then, how many people can even fit into a room with such an ego as Giada's? I guess they can all gather in the doorway and peek into the room as to watch Giada's ego go at.

If she's going to pronounce, "spaghetti", "speee-gheeey-tiiii" as if she just came off the set of a Roman "Ragu" commercial, she ought to pronounce all of the other Italian words with so much gusto, too.

I recall her once snap at her aunt on camera. It was as the aunt tried to say that the recipe her niece had stolen, er, was making was from her grandmother. Giada shut that aunt down so fast you'd think she was about to make a panini out of the lady's hand if it got close enough to touch the counter top.

And if she hand-feeds her kid one more time on camera like she's visiting a petting zoo... We get it. You're a mother. And she's your child. (Try not to hand-feed the girl her first piece of wedding cake, 'k, Giada??).

Something' about Giada just ticks me off. lol

I'm laughing so hard I need to get a tissue to wipe the tears!!! Thanks for making my day!!

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:42:31 GMT

Her Mom is beautiful and still living. Her Grandmother is still quite attractive and has done a lot of shows with all three of them cooking together like when Giada was growing up. They seem to care about each other a great deal.

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TTerri — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 03:10:09 GMT

Becky, you're mistaken. Giada's grandmother has never been on any show. She doesn't have much to do with her dad's side and her mom's mother is dead. Her mom Veronica's sister Raffy is on the show a whole lot.

Giada and her husband separated in the summer of 2014 and decided to divorce in December, as she posted it on Facebook. Giada had been with him since a few months before her 19th birthday in 1989.

Giada was raped as a preteen by her father: http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-09/news/ls-48246_1_boyfriend.

Veronica:

Raffy:

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beckyb1012 — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:41:50 GMT

@TTerri wrote:

Becky, you're mistaken. Giada's grandmother has never been on any show. She doesn't have much to do with her dad's side and her mom's mother is dead. Her mom Veronica's sister Raffy is on the show a whole lot.

Giada and her husband separated in the summer of 2014 and decided to divorce in December, as she posted it on Facebook. Giada had been with him since a few months before her 19th birthday in 1989.

Giada was raped as a preteen by her father: http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-09/news/ls-48246_1_boyfriend.

Veronica:

Raffy:

I recognize her now I always thought that was her Grandmother not her Aunt. Oh well I love when they bring family members on. Like when Trisha Yearwood as Garth on with some of his receipes. Thanks for the info.