“I’m very single,” Flay light-heartedly responds. “She kicked me to the curb.” Drescher then takes her chances and asks Flay, a fellow fan of contemporary art, if they “should look at art together.” “Are you asking me on a date?” he says. “I’m kind of blushing right now.” Monica Schipper/Getty Yorke has since seemingly moved on,posting a photo kissinga mystery man in September at a Michigan football game. Flay’s fans who caught Thursday’s episode weren’t shy to admit that they were excited about his new single status....

Photo: christina perez/instagram The Food Network star and his girlfriendChristina Pérezfirst went public with their relationship in November 2021 after a year of quietly dating. With Flay’s busy schedule that requires lots of traveling, he spoke with PEOPLE about how they “stay connected.” “We try to balance it all out because we’re both very busy,” he says, adding that he was just away from home, filming more than 50episodes of televisionover the past few months....

Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now, the chef, 56, gushes over his daughter Sophie, who is currently working as a community journalist for ABC7 in Los Angeles after graduating from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. She is his only child with ex-wife Kate Connelly. Sophie, 24, reports on events, store openings, and neighborhood concerns—like local restaurants getting backlash forasking customers to wear a mask—in Los Angeles....

Photo:C2 Photography / FOOD & WINE C2 Photography / FOOD & WINE While speaking with PEOPLE at theFood & WineClassic in Aspenon Friday, the Food Networkstar shared that he is “here to stay” with the network that helped build his stardom. “That was an incredible surprise,” he tells PEOPLE of the award, which he received on stage at the festival’s welcome event. “For them to even think about that all these decades later was really incredibly thoughtful....

Astrid Stawiarz/Getty “It is with an absolute broken heart that I report Nacho has passed away peacefully,” the Food Network chef wrote Tuesday onInstagram.“I usually don’t post private family business but I truly believe he was everyone’s cat in some way,” Flay, 58, continued in his loving tribute. “Nacho had a magic about him that was truly special. He came into my life when I needed him most and brought joyful moment after joyful moment to my household....

Photo: Misfits Market Instagram The Food Network star, 57, gave online grocery service Misfits Market a tour of where he stores his grocery items in a video shared to Instagram on Sunday. “People always ask me about my pantry, which I love my pantry because it opens up lots of ideas when it comes to cooking,” Flay, who is Misfits Market’s chef-in-residence, explained in the clip. “I’m kind of proud of my pantry!...

Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty; REGAN WOOD TheFood Networkstar, 58, showed off his 1939 Tudor-style home, which is waking distance to the famed Saratoga Race Course in a feature forHouse Beautiful. REGAN WOOD Flay bought the seasonal home in early 2021, and asked his interior designer Olivia Capuano of Olivia Jane Design “to create a warm home with the Deco era in mind,” he toldHouse Beautiful.“I think she did an amazing job. I love spending time in this home....

The 56-year-old celebrity chef has signed an exclusive, new three-year contract with the network, Discovery Inc. confirmed in a statement shared with PEOPLE Monday. “I’m thrilled to extend my relationship with Food Network and Discovery,” Flay said in the statement. “Although these talks to renew took a little longer than expected, the important thing is that both sides are happy that we can now build on an already rock-solid foundation. Stay tuned for some incredibly exciting new shows as I promise to take food and cooking to places we’ve never imagined before....

Photo: Christina Pérez/Instagram, Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty On Friday, Flay’s girlfriend,Christina Pérez, introduced the pair’s new furry family member: anadorable Pomeraniannamed Allspice. “Ecstatic to introduce the newest member of the family, Allspice Flay Pérez!” she wrote in an Instagram caption. “He’s just a couple months old and weighs just a couple of pounds, but man, is he a charmer!” Pérez revealed that her tiny, new puppy was a gift from Flay for her 42nd birthday in January....

First We Feast In an episode of First We Feast’sHot Ones,Flay reflected on some of the major milestones throughout his life as a celebrity chef, including his early days onFood Networkand a very special cooking gig after an encounter withDrake. While Flay enjoys his fourth hot wing onHot Ones,host Sean Evans tells him that the sauce they’re enjoying is referred to as a “grilling and chilling sauce,” adding that “it’s a sauce of summer....

Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty The celebrity chef, 56, is set to part ways with the network once his current three-year contract expires at the end of this year, according toVariety. The outlet, citing sources close to the situation, reports that Food Network has ended negotiations with Flay, choosing to move on without the star after both parties could not agree on financial terms. Scott Gries/Food Network In 2017, Flay made waves after reports surfaced that he hadabruptly quit Food Network’sIron Cheffranchisewhen he removed his chef’s coat to show off a shirt that read “THIS IS MY LAST IRON CHEF BATTLE EVER” during a filming ofIron Chef Showdown....

In each episode of Flay’s show, theBrasserie B ownerinvites a talented chef to compete against each of the three “titans” —Tiffany Derry,Michael VoltaggioandBrooke Williamson— in the hopes of winning a $25,000 prize. In a clip shared exclusively with PEOPLE, Symon attempts to make a dish he has never made before when competing against Derry. Food Network “I have never made barbecue tofu before,” Symon admits. “But the thing about tofu is I know that it takes on flavors well....

Photo: Scott Gries/Food Network On Friday, news broke that Flay, 56, would be parting ways with the network once his current three-year contract expires at the end of this year. However, a source close to the Food Network tells PEOPLE comparing the two stars' contracts is “not apples to apples.” Ultimately, the network wouldn’t budge in negotiations with Flay. “The two sides were just way too far apart. It became clear the two could not and would not be able to come to terms and so the network decided to move forward without him,” the Flay source says....