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[house_cat]

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?

[Dazlin]

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???

[MariotaMurielle]

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.

[Alsee]

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

[redhead65]

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

[proudlyfromNJ]

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.

[ciao_bella]

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@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]

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

Arley

[carmela soprano]

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.

[proudlyfromNJ]

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