There’s a lot more to this multitalented baker, entrepreneur and television personality than fans may realize.
Read on to find out what you don’t know about Buddy Valastro.
“It was like magic.”
“My dad never told me that I had to be a baker,” Valastro toldParade.
“The first cake that I ever made was my mom’s birthday cake,” he toldParade.
“I wanted that feeling for the rest of my life,” he toldParade.
“I idolized my dad,” Valastro toldParade.
However, there was much to learn along the way.
“The first day, I cleaned bowls.
Baking and decorating cakes, Valastro added, was something he discovered he could do well.
“I was pretty much in charge,” Valastro toldParade.
“But I had bakers who worked here for 30 years.
They didn’t want to listen to a 17-year-old kid.”
That, he recalled, was when one of his late father’s many lessons proved to be important.
“I remember my father saying respect is something that you have to earn.
As Valastro toldBakers Journal, he was initially “skeptical” of being referred to by that regal nickname.
“Now, I couldn’t think of being anything else but that.”
As he said, “We’re still a neighborhood bakery, we do it Hoboken style!”
For Buddy Valastro, the line between business and family isn’t a precisely defined one.
You fight and yell, and then you sit down for a meal.”
In 2017, Valastro issued a statement to reveal that she’d died.
Buddy and his sisters are absolutely crushed right now.”
“She doesn’t want me to stop,” Valastro declared.
There’s not even a doubt in my mind."
According toCelebrity Net Worth, Valastro has amassed an impressive fortune estimated at $10 million.
It is there, notedBusiness News Daily, that orders are baked and shipped to customers throughout the U.S.
The facility also hosts baking classes.
Meanwhile, Valastro also threw his hat into the restaurant business.
“Everyone wants a bakery from me,” he said.
According to the prosecutor in the case, Valastro told cops, “you could’t arrest me!
I’m the Cake Boss.”
I learned an important lesson that if you have even one drink you shouldn’t drive."
“Listen, I learned a valuable lesson,” he said.
“I really thought that I was fine.
I wasn’t, and it will never happen again.”
“I’ll never forget when I was done,” he said.
“I stepped back, I looked at what I made, and cried.”
“People were scared,” Valastro toldCNN.
“I didn’t know which way to look left, right.
I couldn’t even see in front of me.”
“We started to get really scared,” he admitted.
“I want to bake them a cake,” said Valastro of his rescuers.
“I want to do something good for them.”
Speaking with theChicago Tribune, Valastro was circumspect.
“[The Cubs] loved the cake,” Valastro said.
“They felt bad those pictures of the dumpster came out, but what can you do?”
A year later, the prognosis was good.
“It’s definitely been an amazing ride,” he added.
“The fact that I’m still able to do what I love … it’s amazing.”
