Giada De Laurentiis
Giada Pamela De Laurentiis is an Italianborn American chef, writer, television personality, and the host of the current Food Network television program Giada at Home. She also appears regularly as a contributor and guest cohost on NBCs Today. De Laurentiis is the founder of the catering business GDL Foods. She is a winner of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host, and in 2012, she was inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame.
Giada Pamela De Laurentiis was born in Rome, Italy, the eldest child of actress Veronica De Laurentiis and her first husband, actorproducer Alex De Benedetti. De Benedetti was a close associate of Giadas maternal grandfather, film producer Dino De Laurentiis. As a child, Giada often found herself in the familys kitchen and spent a great deal of time at her grandfathers restaurant, DDL Foodshow. Her parents were married in February 1970 but were later divorced. After her parents divorce, Giada and her siblings moved to Southern California where they took their mothers surname. After graduating from Marymount High School in Los Angeles, De Laurentiis attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning her bachelors degree in social anthropology in 1996.
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