Carla Hall Food Network Star Reportedly Parts Ways With Channel
Carla Hall, a longtime judge on Food Network baking shows, is reportedly done with the channel after more than a decade. She confirmed her exit from Halloween Baking Championship in August and is missing from Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking. She has not announced a wider departure.
Carla Hall, a longtime judge on Food Network baking competitions, has reportedly parted ways with the channel after more than a decade, according to an unnamed source quoted in a new report. Hall herself has not announced a departure from Food Network.
What she has confirmed is narrower. In August, Hall said she was leaving Halloween Baking Championship ahead of its Season 12 premiere on September 14.
What Hall has confirmed
"The end of an era for me. Thank you Halloween Baking," she wrote on Instagram, alongside a montage of her wildest Halloween costumes from the show.
Fans flooded the comments. One asked, "Who's gonna give us the proper 'Duuuuuuude' when a baker makes something delicious?" Another wrote, "It won't be the same without you!! You'll be missed dearly."
Hall is also absent from the Season 3 premiere of Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking earlier this month. Duff Goldman and Sarah Mountain replaced her and her former co-judge Jozef Youssef.
What the unnamed source claims
The U.S. Sun reported that Hall has seemingly left the network. "Carla is focusing on her shows on other networks and on her personal projects like her book," a source told the outlet. "She hasn't been talking to Food Network. It seems like there is no relationship there at the moment."
The same insider alleged there are no hard feelings on the network's side, but no talks about bringing her back for anything. "Nothing extremely negative happened between Food Network and Carla, it's just business," the source said. Food Network has not commented in the reports.
Where Hall is working now
Hall is putting time into Chewed Up, a YouTube video podcast and channel. She launched it last year with her former The Chew co-stars Clinton Kelly and Michael Symon.
"We're having a ball on Chewed Up," Hall said on the October 30 episode of Today With Jenna & Sheinelle. "And it's not just our show. It's Chewed Up channel."
She named other programming on the channel: Clinton Kelly and Stacy London are doing Why'd They Wear That?, Michael Symon is doing Simply Symons, and Amanda Freitag has joined with Ask Amanda [Chef On The Line]. Scott Conant has his own show, Hall said, and she is working on a game show.
