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What is Buddy Valastro's Net Worth?
Buddy Valastro is an Italian-American celebrity chef, entrepreneur, television personality , and producer who has a net worth of $10 million. The owner of Carlo's Bake Shop (also known as Carlo's Bakery), Valastro became famous as the star of the TLC reality series "Cake Boss," which began airing in 2009. Buddy has also starred on several other reality shows, including "Cake Boss: Next Great Baker" (2010–2014), "Kitchen Boss" (2011), and "Buddy's Bakery Rescue" (2013). In 2012, Valastro received an honorable mention in "The Hudson Reporter's" list of the 50 most influential people in Hudson County, New Jersey.
Buddy has served as a producer on "Cake Boss," "Cake Boss: Next Great Baker," and "Kitchen Boss" as well as "Batalha dos Confeiteiros" (2015–2018), "Batalha dos Cozinheiros" (2016), "Cooks vs. Cons" (2016), "Bakers vs. Fakers" (2016), "Bake It Like Buddy" (2018–2019), "Unpolished" (2019), and "Buddy vs. Christmas" (2020). He has also released the cookbooks "Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia" (2010), "Baking with the Cake Boss: 100 of Buddy's Best Recipes and Decorating Secrets" (2011), "Cooking Italian with the Cake Boss: Family Favorites as Only Buddy Can Serve Them Up" (2012), "The Essential Cake Boss: Recipes & Techniques You Absolutely Have to Know to Bake Like the Boss" (2013), and "Family Celebrations with the Cake Boss: Recipes for Get-Togethers Throughout the Year" (2013).
Early Life
Buddy Valastro was born Bartolo Valastro, Jr. on March 3, 1977, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He grew up in Hoboken and Little Ferry with mother Mary, father Buddy Sr., and sisters Maddalena, Lisa, Mary, and Grace. Valastro attended Ridgefield Park High School, and he studied baking at Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus. At age 11, Buddy started working at Carlo's Bakery, his family's business, and he took over the business after his father's death in 1994.
Cake Boss
"Cake Boss" takes place at Carlo's Bake Shop in Hoboken, New Jersey, and it follows the everyday lives of Buddy's wife, four sisters, and three brothers-in-law; his mother was also featured on the series until she passed away in 2017 after battling ALS for five years. The show's popularity has turned Carlo's Bake Shop into a tourist attraction, brought more tourism to the Hoboken area, and led to 17 additional Carlo's Bake Shop locations. The bakery has seven New Jersey locations as well as locations in Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Texas, Connecticut, Nevada, Minnesota, and Brazil. The corporate office is located at the Lackawanna Factory in Jersey City, and the building is also used for baking cakes, cookies, pastries, and pizzas that customers order on the website to be shipped across the country. "Cake Boss" premiered on April 19, 2009, on TLC, and the first season averaged 2.3 million viewers. The show moved to Discovery Family in 2019, and as of this writing, more than 235 episodes of "Cake Boss" have aired. In 2010, in honor of Carlo's Bake Shop's centennial, the corner of Hoboken's Newark Street and Washington Street was renamed "Carlo's Bakery Way."
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