Food Network Star

In the latest Ask Andy, I answer questions about two summer reality competitions.

Food Network Star Jason Smith talks about judging Best Baker in America, and whether or not he’ll have his own show on the network.

Behind-the-scenes changes at Food Network has led to the exit of one of its most high-profile executives: Bob Tuschman, who has been for years the on-camera face of the network as part of its reality competition Food Network Star.

Alton Brown is out of Food Network Star, which will return with just Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay as judge/mentors. However, season 11 will include Volkswagen, which will be “organically woven throughout the series and helping propel the competition,” the network announced today. At least there’s that. Since season eight in 2012, the series’ …

New details emerged late last week about the death of Food Network Star contestant Cristie Schoen Codd, who was pregnant, and her husband JT. The man charged with the murders, Robert James Owens, admitted he “stored and destroyed” the bodies in a wood stove. Owens admitted hitting and killing JT with a truck, but Cristie’s cause of death is …

A man has been charged with the murder of Food Network Star cast member Cristie Schoen Codd and her husband, Joseph “JT” Codd. She was 38 and five months pregnant; her husband was 45. Her Facebook page has public photos, posted last fall, of their wedding. They were reported missing Sunday, which Food Network Gossip reported on; Tuesday, a man was charged …

Food Network Star had an incredible season last summer, reinventing and reinvigorating the show with a new format that was reality TV’s best makeover ever. And then Food Network threw it all away and gave us a season that excised nearly everything good about last season. Genius. The previews hinted at the problems, but the …