Star of the Food Network's Giada at Home, Giada de Laurentiis, has been the target of several rumors over the years that she has had a problem with a wandering eye during her time married to fashion designer Todd Thompson. According to the latest gossip news updates, Giada has possibly cheated with everyone from the Today show's Matt Lauer to John Mayer. The Italian born TV personality, recently came out and set the record straight, however. While de Laurentiis and her husband are indeed getting a divorce, she denies ever having any kind of an affair with anyone and insists that she has barely even met John Mayer.
Apparently feeling slighted that they missed the opportunity to run months of salacious stories about their impending divorce, when the Star Magazine got word that Food Network hottie Giada de Laurentiis and her husband, Todd Thompson, had officially split, the publication began to insist that she must have been cheating all along.
Lacking any real evidence to back up their inferences that Giada had relationships with Bobby Flay or John Mayer, for their January 19, issue, Star Magazine seemingly reached out to anyone that could make it sound like de Laurenttis was really up to no good:
"Giada becomes totally flirty when she is around Matt {Lauer], like when they've done cooking segments together.
"When Giada joined him in Barbados in 2011 for one of his Where in the World is Matt Lauer segments, it was almost uncomfortable watching them splash around together in the ocean in bathing suits, like high school sweethearts."
Since becoming aware of the report, however, de Laurenttis has made it crystal clear that she has never come close to being inappropriate with anyone mentioned in the article:
"My long-time friendships with my co-workers Matt Lauer and Bobby Flay are exactly that -- long-time friendships.
"There has never been a romantic relationship with these two men."
And as far as the allegations that she had an affair with John Mayer goes -- Giada told Gossip Cop that she had never even been alone in a room with the man:
"I have never ever been romantically involved with John Mayer.
"I met him twice at least 5 or 6 years ago at public events along with hundreds of other people.
"The small amount of face time with John was in rooms filled with other attendees at these events.
"I have not seen or even heard from him since."
Giada has since told the Huffington Post that even though they were getting a divorce, she wanted to set the record straight before any of the ridiculous rumors hurt Thompson or his family:
"I was shocked. And not so much for me, but for my husband and family...Todd was embarrassed that his family in Michigan would see it and think, 'What is going on over there in Hollywood?'"
Now honestly...who considers the Food Network to really be a part of Hollywood.
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