Though many of these star chefs have made names for themselves cooking up delicious meals on camera — at home, they each have a special someone to share their love — and recipes! — with.
From Ina and Jeffrey Garten’s decades long relationship — which she opened up about in a recent issue of PEOPLE — to Gordon and Tana Ramsey’s family of eight, see more about the loved ones of these celebrity chefs.
Buddy Valastro
Cake Boss Buddy Valastro married his wife Lisa have been married for more than 20 years, having tied the knot in 2001. Two years later they welcomed their first child, Sofia, and are now a family of six with the addition of Buddy Jr, Marco and Carlo.
In an Instagram post commemorating his 2024 Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding culinary host, he called Lisa his “rock who holds it all together for me.”
“Thank you for supporting me in this big accomplishment,’ he said to his wife.
Carla Hall
Carla Hall and her husband Michael Lyons have been married for nearly two decades, celebrating their 18th anniversary in April 2024 after first meeting on Match.com.
In a post to Instagram featuring photos of the couple enjoying a sweet treat, the Top Chef alum wrote, “The couple that eats dessert together, stays together.”
Curtis Stone
Curtis Stone and his wife Lindsay Price first began dating in 2009. After a romantic 2012 engagement in Italy, the couple tied the knot in June 2013 and share two children, Emerson and Hudson.
On an episode of Stone’s HSN+ podcast Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone from earlier this year, the couple looked back on the early stages of their relationship, including the first time Price visited Stone’s home. During the episode, Stone whips out the same chocolate mousse with whiskey that he served her on that day — a gesture that moved the mom of two to tears.
“To be honest, this is the moment I knew you were the one,” she recalled.
“It wasn’t just because it was delicious. It was because you saw that I liked the whiskey, you thought about me ahead of time and then you made this thing that tasted like … it was a mind-blowing, delicious … dessert of dreams.”
Duff Goldman
Duff Goldman married his wife Johnna in 2019 and welcomed daughter Josephine Frances Goldman in 2021.
Goldman told PEOPLE in 2023 that though he didn’t want to get married after watching his parents’ “really nasty divorce,” he changed his mind when he met his now-wife online.
“I was like, ‘Oh, that’s how you’re supposed to feel about people,’” he said.
“We have a one-in-a-million relationship,” he added. “I never thought I would have this kind of capacity for love.”
Ree Drummond
In celebration of the couple’s 28th wedding anniversary, Ree Drummond shared a carousel of their decades-long love story to Instagram along with a sweet tribute to her husband.
“It has been an adventure, a roller coaster, a journey, an odyssey, and a blast,” she wrote in part.
The two are now the proud parents to five children: Alex, 27, Paige, 25, Bryce, 22, Jamar, 21, and Todd, 20.
Ina Garten
Ina Garten’s relationship to her longtime husband Jeffrey dates back to the ’60s when the Barefoot Contessa chef was just 15 years old. The two dated for five years and in 1968 tied the knot in her parents’ backyard.
In her upcoming memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Ina opens up for the first time about a rough patch she and Jeffrey hit in their marriage in the 1970s while she was running her Barefoot Contessa store in New York’s Hamptons and he was working in Washington D.C.
“There were certain roles that we played, and I found them really annoying,” Ina told PEOPLE. “I felt that if I just hit the pause button, I would get his attention.”
Ina asked Jeffrey for a separation — a decision she calls “the hardest thing I ever did” — though the two would reconcile after he agreed to see a therapist.
“He was that determined to convince me he was serious about making our marriage work,” she writes.
Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray married John Cusimano in 2005 in Tuscany.
“John and I didn’t meet until later in life, and didn’t get married until we were almost 40. We knew who we were. We’ve always been that way, for 20 years. We don’t take it too much to heart when one person just has to vent or blow up. We’re very good at being quiet also, with each other,” Ray explained to PEOPLE in 2021. “We don’t look for there to be constant chatter. And we’re very good with giving each other space to work on our passions.”
Gordon Ramsey
Though Gordon Ramsey might be famous for being harsh on television, he’s really a family man at heart. Ramsey shares six children with his wife Tana, whom he married in 1996.
“Date nights are crucial, whether it’s the cinema, whether it’s going out for a drive. We have a little time, but it’s quality, and so that is really important,” Gordon told PEOPLE earlier this year of how he and Tana keep the spark going while raising children with a two-decade age gap.
The couple welcomed their first daughter, Megan, in 1998 and later fraternal twins, daughter Holly and son Jack in 1999, Matilda in 2001; Oscar in 2019 and son Jesse James in 2023.
Giada De Laurentiis
Giada De Laurentiis and producer Shane Farley started dating almost 10 years ago in 2015, following the Giada at Home star’s divorce from Todd Thompson.
“I got lucky that I could find somebody relatively quickly after getting divorced,” De Laurentiis, who shares daughter Jade with Thompson, told PEOPLE in 2022. “It’s so far so good, which is lucky for me because when you’re a single mom and you work, it could be tricky to find somebody that can accept that life.”
Guy Fieri
Guy Fieri married his wife Lori in 1995 after first meeting at a restaurant just a few years prior. The couple share two sons together, Hunter and Ryder, and have also helped to raise their nephew Jules following Guy’s sister Morgan’s death from melanoma in 2011.
“Family is always the first priority,” Guy told PEOPLE in 2022.
Marcus Samuelsson
Chef Marcus Samuelsson wed his wife Maya Haile Samuelsson in 2009 and have since welcomed two children together, Zion and Grace Ethiopia. Marcus is also dad to an adult daughter named Zoe.
Wolfgang Puck
While Wolfgang Puck has created an empire of restaurants, cookbooks and kitchenware, he is also a dad and grandpa.
The Austrian chef shares sons Oliver and Alexander with Gelila Assefa Puck (pictured here in March 2024) and sons Cameron and Byron with ex Barbara Lazaroff. In 2022, he celebrated becoming a grandfather when Cameron and his wife Kate welcomed baby Maxwell Lyubim Lazaroff-Puck.
After first meeting in 1997, the pair wed in Capri in 2007, Harper’s Bazaar reported that summer.
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