My wife USED to watch that show all the time. I can promise you she won’t watch it ever again.
Poor sweetheart! The only reason I have ever wanted to be someone with a public talent or wealth is so I can help people on a one on one basis, like this. I know if I were a celebrity chef, I would make time. For shame!
I’d rather have Miss DeLaurentis.
I don’t know anything about Ina Garten, but the kid’s family going to the press to attempt to smear her is really tacky.
Her only excuse for missing this is if her own child was dying in bed that day.
What a pig.
Sweet, and mostly sad. I would twist myself in knots to make this happen. I am not a celebrity chef but I have 5 decades of cooking experience and do some really good stuff. I would use my own resources to travel and cook with this kid.
Couldn’t the miserable bitch or her publicist have rearranged her schedule to accommodate this wish?
I can assure you that I will *never* watch her show again.
The woman lives in the Hamptons and calls herself a contessa. Enough said.
We like the Food Channel and have seen her show a few times. She strikes us as a snooty liberal.
Maybe she really was busy. It’s easy for non-celebs to question the lives of those in the spotlight. Make A Wish may be a great organization, but they shouldn’t use their sympathetic kids to hold celebrities hostage. And it is up to the kids’ parents to moderate the kids’ expectations.
It should be an honor to be selected as a child’s “wish”. Shame on Ina.
Typical liberal, all talk and no action.
Really good publicity, or poisonous publicity. The choice is yours, BareFAT C**tessa.
Barefoot Contessa, you're a pig, and you'd better hope that you're never in a situation like the one faced by the kid. Wow, a dying fan, and you essentially flipped him the bird.
Karma's a bitch.
So? If celebs HAD TO agree to every little tear jerker story they couldn’t possibly fulfill such obligations.
It’s hard to believe that someone with a 300 pound heft can be so one dimensional. This comports exactly with my impression of this woman. sd
I been on TMZ live right now one of Harvey Levin reporters totally badmouth her LOL!
This looks like thuggery on the part of the Make-a-Wish foundation. Are they such a sacred cow that they can demand that everyone accede to their requests? They asked a private person to sign on to an act of charity and she Dec.ined, and now they are publicizing this. It doesn’t appear that she backed out of a commitment that she made to them or that she showed any disrespect to the child or the organization.
This is a story? Isn’t charity work supposed to be voluntary? Are we going to start smearing celebrities every time they turn down an invitation to appear at a benefit or decline a request for a donation, regardless of how generous they may be with their time and money?
I feel bad for the child, but this has the feel of a shakedown.
Sorry to sound rude, but the “Barefoot Contess” doesn’t have to do this. Personally, I would try to bend over backward if someone from “Make a Wish” asked me to do something and it surprises me that this chef won’t do it, but I’m not going to damn her for it. The parents need to calm down and work with the child to come up with another wish. And the organization should not bad mouth this chef or leak damaging information—that just hurts the program.
Sorry to sound rude, but the “Barefoot Contess” doesn’t have to do this. Personally, I would try to bend over backward if someone from “Make a Wish” asked me to do something and it surprises me that this chef won’t do it, but I’m not going to damn her for it. The parents need to calm down and work with the child to come up with another wish. And the organization should not bad mouth this chef or leak damaging information—that just hurts the program.