What you need to know
- Carla Hall has reportedly parted ways with Food Network after more than a decade.
- Hall has officially confirmed his exit from Halloween Baking Championship and is absent from the last season of Harry Potter: The Wizards of Pastry.
- Hall is apparently focusing on other projects, including Cheweda series and a YouTube channel that she launched with the former Chewing co-stars.
Food Network fans may no longer see one of the network’s most recognizable faces on their screens.
Several of the cooking channel’s baking competition series are returning for the holiday season this year, including Halloween Baking Championship And Harry Potter: The Wizards of Pastry. One similarity is that their later seasons do not feature Carla Hall, who was a long-time judge on both shows.
According to a new report in The US Sun, Hall has apparently parted ways with Food Network after more than a decade on the channel. “Carla is focusing on her shows on other networks and on her personal projects like her book,” a source told the media. “She hasn’t spoken to Food Network. It appears there is no relationship there at this time.”
The insider claimed, “There are no hard feelings on the network’s side, but there are no discussions about bringing Carla back for anything. Nothing extremely negative has happened between Food Network and Carla, it’s just business.”
Hall, for his part, has not officially announced his departure from Food Network. However, in August, she confirmed her exit from Halloween Baking Championship ahead of the season 12 premiere on September 14.
“The end of an era for me. Thank you Halloween Baking,” she wrote alongside an Instagram montage of her wackiest and craziest Halloween costumes featured on the show over the years.
Fans shared their strong reactions to the news in the post’s comments. “Who’s going to give us the ‘Duuuuuuude’ voucher when a baker makes something delicious?” » asked one user. Another said: “We’re really going to miss you, Carla. Thanks for entertaining and informing us about one of our favorite shows.” Someone else shared: “It won’t be the same without you!! We will miss you so much.”
Hall was also absent from the season 3 premiere of Harry Potter: The Wizards of Pastry earlier this month. Duff Goldman and Sarah Mountain replaced her and her former co-judge Jozef Youssef.
Last year, Hall reunited with his old Chewing co-stars Clinton Kelly and Michael Symon to launch YouTube video podcast Chewed. “We’re having fun with Chewed Up,” Hall teased on the Oct. 30 episode of Today with Jenna and Sheinelle. “And it’s not just our show. It’s the Chewed Up channel.”
Teasing new programming coming to the network online, Hall shared: “Clinton Kelly and Stacy London are doing Why do they wear that?. Michael does Simply Symons. We just added Amanda Freitag, Ask Amanda (Online Chef).”
She continued, “We have a whole lineup. Scott Conant, he has his show. I’m putting together a game show.”
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