Details Revealed About Bobby Flay's Split with Food Network

Last week, SOTH reported that Amagansett resident and celebrity chef Bobby Flay is leaving the Food Network after 27 years. Now, new information for the reason the celebrity chef is leaving has been revealed.

A source told People, that Bobby wanted a contract in the ballpark of $100 million. He asked for more than Guy Fieri‘s recent $80 million contract, which the network gave to him.

“Guy has a three-year deal,” the source said. “The terms of what Bobby was looking for were gravely different than just cash. The terms were longer, the scope of work was different and thus the dollars were different. It’s not just $80 million to $100 million.”

According to the source, the network would not budge with Flay, and the decision was “strictly business.”

Flay’s contract with the Food Network, which he’s been with for 27 years, since 1994, concludes at the end of this year. There’s no official word on what’s next for the celebrity chef, but he launched a podcast, Always Hungry with Bobby Flay and Sophie Flay, with his daughter earlier in the year and, of course, he still has his chain of Bobby’s Burger Palace restaurants around the country, and his new Italian restaurant, Amalfi, in Las Vegas.