Food Network Star Reportedly Leaves Network After Exiting Multiple Series

Food Network fans may no longer see one of the channel’s most recognizable faces on their screens.

Several of the cooking channel’s baking competition series have returned for the holiday season this year, including Halloween Baking Championship and Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking. One similarity is that their latest seasons do not feature Carla Hall, who served as a longtime judge on both shows.

According to a new report in The U.S. Sun, Hall has seemingly parted ways with Food Network after more than a decade on the channel. “Carla is focusing on her shows on other networks and on her personal projects like her book,” a source claimed to the outlet. “She hasn’t been talking to Food Network. It seems like there is no relationship there at the moment.”

The insider alleged, “There’s no hard feelings on the network’s side, but there are no discussions to bring Carla back for anything. Nothing extremely negative happened between Food Network and Carla, it’s just business.”

Hall, for her part, has not formally announced a departure from Food Network. Back in August, however, she confirmed her exit from Halloween Baking Championship ahead of its Season 12 premiere on September 14.

“The end of an era for me. Thank you Halloween Baking,” she wrote alongside an Instagram montage of her wackiest and wildest Halloween costumes featured on the show over the years.

 

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Fans shared their strong reactions to the news in the post’s comments. “Who’s gonna give us the proper ‘Duuuuuuude’ when a baker makes something delicious?” one user asked. Another said, “We gonna miss you real bad, Carla. Thank you for keeping us entertained- and informed on one of our favorite shows.” Someone else shared, “It won’t be the same without you!! You’ll be missed dearly.”

Hall was also missing 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.

Last year, Hall reunited with her former The Chew co-stars Clinton Kelly and Michael Symon to launch the YouTube video podcast Chewed Up. “We’re having a ball on Chewed Up,” Hall teased on the October 30 episode of Today With Jenna & Sheinelle. “And it’s not just our show. It’s Chewed Up channel.”

Teasing new programming coming to the online network, Hall shared, “Clinton Kelly and Stacy London are doing Why’d They Wear That?. Michael is doing Simply Symons. We just added Amanda Freitag, Ask Amanda [Chef On The Line].”

She continued, “We have a whole lineup. Scott Conant, he has his show. I’m coming up with a game show.”