Bartolo "Buddy" Valastro, Jr. ( born Bartolo "Buddy" Valastro, Jr. , born March 3, 1977 ) is an American chef of Italian descent , an entrepreneur who became famous thanks to several reality shows with his participation. He owns his father's Carlo's Bakery. The greatest popularity was brought to him by filming in the reality show "The King of Confectioners", which premiered in April 2009 on the TLC channel . Due to the great success of the program, other equally popular projects appeared with his participation: “The Boss in the Kitchen” (2011), “The Great Baker” (2010), “The Salvation of the Buddy Bakery” (2013) and others.
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| Date of Birth | March 3, 1977 (42 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Hoboken (New Jersey) |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | pastry chef |
| Spouse | Lisa Valastro (since 2001) |
| Children | Sofia, Bartolo, Marco, Carlo |
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Biography
The son of Italian pastry chefs Mary Tubito Valastro Pinto and Bartolo Valastro. Bartolo "Buddy" Valastro, Jr. was born March 3, 1977 in Hoboken , New Jersey , USA [1] . His mother, Mary Tubito Valastro Pinto (born April 17, 1948), had Italian roots, his father, Bartolo Valastro (born in 1940) in the United States [1] .
When his mother was six years old in 1954, her parents decided to emigrate to the United States. At the age of twelve, in 1960 she met her future husband Bartolo Valastro, and at the first meeting she told him: “You will be my life partner” [1] . In 1964, his parents decided to go into business and bought the Carlo's Bake Shop, a confectionery founded in 1910. Mary Tubito Valastro Pinto was the administrator, and Bartolo Valastro was the chief pastry chef . On July 25, 1965, Buddy's parents got married [1] .
Buddy was the youngest in the family, he has four older sisters: Grace Faugno (born in 1966), Maddalena Castano (born in 1967), Mary Scarrone (born in 1969) and Lisa Gonzalez (born in 1974).
Since 1983, at the age of 6, Buddy Valastro began working in the confectionery of his parents [1] .
At the age of 8, he became interested in sports (mixed martial arts, practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu with his friends), he said that he liked it, but later was forced for family reasons to return to the bakery.
On April 17, 1988, at age 11, Buddy baked his first cake. He made it for his mother, who was forty years old, father Valastro wanted to decorate the cake himself, but his son’s perseverance took his toll. The cake was stuffed with chocolate and vanilla soaked in Italian rum . As a decoration, he added the phrase “I Love Mom”.
It was hard for Valastro to imagine a successful career as one of America 's best pastry chefs and decorators. At school, he was always struggling with art. [2]
Buddy began his career at Carlo's Bake Shop with washing pots and pans. Watching the work of his father, Valastro realized that he had inherited the family gene for baking and he wanted to do it. At age 12, he began to help his parents clean the family bakery.
In 1991, Buddy began to bake wedding cakes and was studying recipes for their preparation.
When Valastro turned 15 years old, his father took him to Sicily for a year, thanks to which Buddy mastered the Italian language perfectly.
He attended Bergen County Technical High School in Hackensack , New Jersey. [1] Valastro has always sought to ensure that the confectionery of his parents was recognized as the best in the whole world.
When he was 16 years old, he met his future wife Elizabeth and immediately fell in love.
Buddy's father passed away in 1994, leaving his son as a successor.
On June 22, 2017, at the age of 69, the mother of Baddi Valastro, Maria Valastro, died. She often appeared in the early years on the King of Confectioners show and helped her son Buddy publish his books and manage the bakery, but after being diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2012, she left. [3] One of the editions of The King of Confectioners was dedicated to the memory of Maria Valastro.
Family
Married to Lisa Valastro, together they bring up 3 sons (Bartolo, Marco, Carlo) and daughter Sofia. Buddy also has 4 sisters, who often appear in his show with his families and help him on the set.
Career
In addition to the Carlo's Bakery, which hosts the King of the Confectioners show, Valastro owns another 12 bakeries that were opened only thanks to the success of his show. In January 2012, the Hudson Reporter newspaper included Buddy Valastro on the list of 50 most influential people in Hudson County (New Jersey). Buddy's bakeries are currently located in 6 New Jersey districts, as well as outside of Philadelphia, Las Vegas, and New York. Buddy's bakeries also operate on 9 cruise ships ( Norwegian Cruise Line ). Lackawanna Factory, located in the neighboring city of Jersey City , serves as the main office for business and is used as additional space for creating wedding and company cakes, as well as for baking special bakery products there, which are then delivered to anywhere in the United States. In June 2014, Buddy founded the Event Planning & Catering company, Buddy V's Events., Which works in the field of catering, the main activity of which is the organization of corporate events, as well as planning weddings and any other family parties.
TLC TV shows
- The King of Confectioners (Cake Boss) (2009 - present)
- “The Boss in the Kitchen” (Kitchen Boss) (2011-2012)
- The Next Great Baker (2010 - present)
- Buddy's Bakery Rescue (formerly Bakery Boss) (2013 - present)
- Battle of the Confectioners (Batalha dos Confeiteiros) (2015)
- “The King of Confectioners: Family Vacation” (Buddy's Family Vacation ) (2016)
- The Kings of Baking ( Buddy's Big Bakedown) (2018 - present)
Interesting Facts
Comedian Paul F. Tompkins Parodies Buddy Valastro in Comedy Bang Bang.
In one of his interviews with the newspaper Metro he said that he was going to open a bakery in Moscow. [four]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Congressional Record, Volume 143 Issue 53 (Tuesday, April 29, 1997) . www.gpo.gov. Date of treatment December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Buddy Valastro - The Brooks Group - Public Relations (Eng.) , The Brooks Group - Public Relations . Date of treatment December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Mary 'Mama' Valastro, mother of 'Cake Boss' star Buddy Valastro, dies at 69 (English) , NJ.com . Date of treatment December 1, 2018.
- ↑ Love of Yegorov. Buddy Valastro: St. Basil's Cathedral looks like a cake . Metro (April 22, 2014). Date of treatment May 19, 2016.