Cooking shows tend to be quite PG, with the personalities in front of the camera bringing some incredible dishes alive for the enjoyment of fans of all ages across the world. Some of the current TV chefs have had squeaky clean reputations in the past, but all that is fast changing thanks to a string of scandals and controversies that have made tabloid headlines over the last few years. While the Food Network likes to emphasize the fairly tame images of their star chefs, as the following 25 stories will show, this couldn’t be further from the truth when it comes to the real-life antics of their beloved stars.
25 Times That Superstar TV Chefs Tainted Their Squeaky Clean Images
25. Bobby Flay
In 2009, Bobby Flay was involved in a legal battle with one of his own employees. Although Iron Chef paints him as an all-round do-gooder, a lot of the staff across his restaurants have often claimed that he is not the most lenient of employers when it comes to loosening the purse strings of the business.
Nobody likes a stingy boss. Disgruntled employees have openly spoken about being cheated out of wages and tips, with one having to go the legal route to get compensated for overtime they were owed. While his publicists denied all claims, at the end of the day Bobby had to pay a settlement of $800k to get the case off his back.
Bobby Flay
