Food Network’s Kardea Brown Reacts to Backlash After Replacing Valerie Bertinelli
Kardea Brown is responding to her haters who left her hurtful comments after she replaced Valerie Betinelli on Kids Baking Championship. The Food Network star took to Facebook on December 5.
She replaced Bertinelli on Season 13 of Kids Baking Championship in January. Brown is also set to cohost the new series, Baking Championship: Next Gen, on January 5 with Duff Goldman. The new series will feature sibling kid bakers. The mean comments came on a promo post for the new show that she shared on December 4.
Brown responded to the comments that said that they wanted Bertinelli back. “Cousins, I need to get something off my chest……..The amount of adults leaving negative comments on my last post is alarming. I hear you……you’re tired of competition shows and you want Valerie back. But guess what?! I can’t control any of that, so leaving nasty comments on my page won’t change a single thing,” she wrote.
“Kids genuinely love these children-focused baking competitions, which is exactly why they’ve lasted for so many years. It’s not always about one person’s preference…..there are billions of people in this world, and what YOU don’t enjoy, someone else might. If it’s not for you, simply don’t watch 
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“And honestly, I think as adults some of us have forgotten the core principles we teach children: be nice, be kind, and if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. We need to get back to the basics of manners. Social media has become a breeding ground for unnecessary meanness and unhappy people, and it doesn’t have to be,” Brown went on.
“This is a family-oriented show, and so many families enjoy watching together. And to those families? Get ready for a spectacular season with lots of talented kid bakers and a theme I think the entire family will love!”
Bertinelli left the show in January 2024 after cohosting with Goldman since 2015. She told her followers that she was asked not to return due to “budget cuts.” The network also canceled her own show, Valerie’s Home Cooking, and she had “no idea why.”
Brown is also the host of Delicious Miss Brown, which premiered in 2019 on Food Network.
Baking Championships: Next Gen, premieres January 6, 2025, Food Network
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R
I love Valerie and Kardea. Why don’t the haters with keyboard courage use that same energy and ask the network to explain their decision. Why haven’t they been equally vocal about the cancellation of Valerie’s cooking show?
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S
Absolutely agree with statement made by Kardea. Valarie was wonderful and well missed but Kardea is only doing her job so leave her alone. This is on the network, no one else!
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T
Kardea, you are great. I like you on Holiday Baking and you were kind with all the kids. We can miss Valerie and really enjoy you too. I hate social media and VERY RARELY post. But you need to know most of us are glad to have you in our homes and make our lives a little happier.
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E
Food Network is garbage now. I'm not a fan of competition shows. Their handling of Valerie and Kardea has created a divide among viewers.
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L
I agree. I love them both also but I'm fairly certain Valerie may have been canceled in part due to all of the f-bombs she drops on her social media accounts. I have followed her for years but I was even put off considering she was part of the Kids Baking Championship. You've got to choose which side of the road you're going to walk on. Children are so impressionable and they are watching.
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M
I absolutely love you ms Brown keep up the good work and bring on those delicious recipes
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T
I have watched every episode of Kids Baking Championship. I don’t care who hosts it but what I do care about is fairness. This season has been the worse by fair! One of the best teams gets kicked off because the cherry sauce didnt thicken and another team that has had sloppy desserts for the entire season to include half filled pie crusts, making the same cake 3 times and more, gets to stay on. Look back at this season and see how other teams get kicked off but this team gets to stay! You’ll know exactly who I’m talking about!
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L
Miss Brown don't even worry about what others say,They might have a boaring life and have to dip into others lives.I say congratulations to You
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L
I don't know where this attraction for Valerie Bertinelli comes from. She's like Norma Desmond....desperate still for public attention and compliments. Just look at her social media....she craves attention and fan comments. Trying to keep the "celebrity" going, when she was never a genuine celebrity in the first place, so she gloms off the success of her son, and still drops Eddie's name all the time when they were long divorced and now he's passed away
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S
She’s far more of a celebrity than you think. Obviously the reason for the concerning statements left by others.
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J
Val was annoying, I'm sure Duff couldn't take it anymore
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