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Bobby Flay has not quit Food Network’s Iron Chef.

The celebrity chef, 52, reportedly walked away from the franchise’s Iron Chef Showdown after he showed off a shirt that read “This Is My Last Iron Chef Battle Ever” during a filming of an episode last summer.

However, Flay now tells People it was a poorly thought out joke.

“This past summer when I was in production on Iron Chef Showdown, I wore a T-shirt to have a little fun during my last battle this season. In hindsight, it was probably not the best decision because it’s just creating confusion,...

Iron Chef competitor Masaharu Morimoto's career nearly came crashing down last fall. The Japanese sushi chef was getting out of a hot tub in a New Jersey spa when he slipped on a wet floor and landed backwards on his right wrist. "I knew right away that I had broken it," Morimoto, 55, told People. "I thought, 'What if I can't go back to the kitchen?' My wrist is very important to me - it's my world, my job, my life." In addition to his weekly gig on Food Network's Iron Chef America: The Series, Morimoto, who made...

Later this month, The Food Network will debut their new show What Would Brian Boitano Make? starring the Olympic gold medal winning ice skater. Earlier last month, I received some publicity material from the network and, thinking our readers might be interested, responded asking when Brian would be doing press.

I was told someone would get back to me, but no one ever did.

Fortunately, I knew that The Food Network was hosting an event to promote Wwbbm? at the approaching Television Critics Association Summer Tour in Los Angeles, and I knew at the party, Brian would be doing interviews with press such as myself.

Here is how the network publicity materials described the show:

With a lifelong passion for food and cooking, Brian hosts unpredictable get-togethers at his San Francisco home and creates amazing menus focusing on innovative but accessible dishes. He feeds an all-girl roller derby squad, plays matchmaker for a friend,...

American reality TV star Cat Cora and her wife Jennifer are both pregnant with the couple's third and fourth kids.

Iron Chef America star Cat, 41, is due to give birth at the end of July, while Jennifer will deliver in April.

According to PerezHilton.com, Cat is carrying a baby conceived using Jennifer's egg, while both Cat and Jennifer both donated eggs to conceive the child Jennifer is carrying. The same anonymous sperm donor fathered all four kids.

The unborn babies, both boys, will be younger siblings to the couple's two sons Zoran and Caje.

NBC has filled the casting cupboard for its upcoming unscripted series Celebrity Cooking Showdown. Supermodel Naomi Campbell, Days of Our Lives star Alison Sweeney and country music performer Big Kenny are among the celebrities who have been lined up for the cooking competition series. They will be joined by celebrity chefs Wolfgang Puck, Cat Cora (Iron Chef America) and Govind Armstrong, executive chef and owner of Los Angeles restaurant Table 8. The hosts of Showdown will be Alan Thicke (Growing Pains) and Sandra Lee (Semi-Homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee).