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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. “Regardless, it was really much more amicable than you’d think. It was strictly business.”
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“We’ve been trying for a long time to get a place in Florida,” he said. “We’ve been talking about it, talking about it, and talking about it, and we just happened to be back there shootingTriple Dand doing some projects, and we contacted a real estate agent who took us around and showed us some stuff. … [And] we got an awesome place and we’re super excited.”
“It wasn’t because of the contract, but it did coincide,” added Fieri, whose home base is in Northern California. “It makes it a lot easier to explain to Lori how I’m buying a house in Florida, when you go, ‘I did just do a new contract.’ "
source: people.com
