r/foodnetwork • u/SnooMarzipans1593 • 3d ago
Bobby & Brooke at US Open
This relationship still seems weird to me. Can‘t really explain why.
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u/Conscious_Occasion 3d ago edited 3d ago
CAN WE PLEASE GET A MASTERPOST FOR THESE TWO. PLEASE.
This is r/foodnetwork, not r/bobbybrookeobsession
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u/librarycatlady 3d ago
Thank you. I thought I was the only one. This feels like Oh No They Didn’t but exclusively for them.
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u/Tight-Supermarket277 3d ago
He looks like her grandpa
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u/CityMouseBC 3d ago
But she's older than I thought.13 year difference, so he couldn't even be her father, much less grandpa. Still....
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u/curiousbydesign 3d ago
No still. WTF. They are consenting adults. Can we mind our business and not pass judgment when consenting adults do things we may not agree with?
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u/CityMouseBC 3d ago
Well, I meant he looks old. And this is Reddit. No one is minding their own business, so chill out. I'll raise your WTF with a JFC.
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u/curiousbydesign 3d ago
My family uses your same logic to marginalize the LGBT community. And they feel as justified as you do too. Righteous. Regressive. Love it (vomit noises).
Yeah, JFC indeed.
You can chill out. That's your prerogative. I have communities to protect. Enjoy your rest and relaxation. Others will do the work for you.
Consenting adults 13 years apart. Let's be critical but also chill out.
Kids, today's lesson is hypocrisy. Recess!
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u/Desperate-Ad-3705 2d ago
Omfg you need to sit down and shut up. You are not the community "saviour".
You are not special. Chill.
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u/curiousbydesign 2d ago edited 2d ago
I misread and apologized below. I don't need to be spcieical. And no, I will not chill. You can do you while I do me.
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u/CityMouseBC 2d ago
OMG, someone has some reading comprehension issues. I was defending them. I said, if you'd like to go back to the record ☝️, that he wasn't that much older than her. Not grandpa, not father. A peer, at their ages. My comment you seem to be taking issue with was just related to the fact that, in THIS picture, he looks old. And he does. He looks old. Like a 60 year old. Which he is. BFD. You sound very intolerant and quick to judge. I'm a full blood Native American, so don't presume to lecture me about protecting communities. That's all I do. Now, let's talk about intolerance, shall we? Get your dictionary out, because I'm not sure you understand the word.
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u/curiousbydesign 2d ago
Ok.
"But she's older than I thought.13 year difference, so he couldn't even be her father, much less grandpa. Still..."
The last incomplete sentence. "Still."
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u/MisterBowTies 8h ago
I think Makeup and camera magic do a lot to make her look like she's been in her 20's for over a decade.
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u/PaperGeno 3d ago
I'm not trying to be mean but she doesn't look that young either. I would guess they maybe had a 5 year age gap at most
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u/AnotherDoubtfulGuest 2d ago
There was an uncomfortable episode of Beat Bobby Flay that had both Brooke and Giada on it. I wonder if they overlapped.
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u/ChrisIronsArt 3d ago
It only seems weird because Brook doesn’t look her real age not even close to it, she looks absolutely fantastic for almost 50. Where Bobby looks about his age or slightly younger.
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u/whatev3691 2d ago
Personally I think she's had too much work done
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u/makama77 2d ago
Read some of the comments below yours to understand WHY she may have had work done:
‘That neck tells her age immediately’
‘She needs some resurfacing done. And those lumps on her face’
Christ. You can’t win for losing as a woman in this world.
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u/Interesting-Foot-439 2d ago
This, absolutely! As soon as she won TC, she started getting way too much done on her face. She is almost unrecognizable now.
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u/happygoth6370 3d ago
Agree. Brooke looks amazing. I think it's great and wish them well. If it doesn't work out, c'est la vie, but for people to be so cynical and bitchy about it is wild.
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u/Professional_Set3634 2d ago
I dont think the age gap is an issue they look the same age to me theres just something gross and creepy about Bobby Flay to me and he makes me want to projectile vomit
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u/more_cheese_please_ 3d ago
I think they look really cute together, and obviously know what their careers entail…let them be happy!
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u/OkSignificance1485 3d ago
My best friend married a man 15 years her senior. They were ecstatically happy for over forty years. Don't knock it till you know it.
This speculation is nothing but adolescent rhetoric!
Men marry women half their age all the time. So what's the big deal this time? Fodder for your little brains to feed on?
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u/These_Win_4937 3d ago
I am 31 and my partner is turning 49 in a few months, like age gaps work sometimes!!!!
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u/krissycole87 3d ago
Not exceptionally good angles here for Bob. He looks much better on set when his hair is filled in and fuller.
All that said i like them together and no one will convince me otherwise. They're two grown adults who spent so much time working together they fell for each other. Big whoop he's older, after about 40 everyone is just "an adult grown up" age. Tbf they're probably the same maturity level since Brooke has obviously tried hard to mature while Bobby tries to stay young. Crazy theory, they could actually work out.
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u/Serious-Feeling-1811 3d ago
They literally look so good together, ya’ll are weird haters. Also he’s only 13 years older than her lol
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u/SeasonCertain 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah I mean, any relationship thing I have ever seen with Bobby makes me throw up in my mouth a bit because of his being a serial cheater and generally being shit to women but she’s nearly 50. She can make her own decisions. The age gap isn’t even that bad here. DiCaprio has done far sleazier as an example.
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u/FickleAd7176 2d ago
I am happy for them , life lessons , not here to judge , hope they are happy together
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u/drunkjedi28 3d ago
Brooke looks like Sunny Smiles.
Bobby is giving Harland...
"Hey, smoothskin!!"
😬
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u/OkSquash3710 1d ago
Feels weird to me too, like they worked so closely together for so long. But Triple Threat is much more intimate. Bugs me out when she’s sitting next to him. I always thought if she would hook up with anyone she worked with it would be Michael. Hope it works out for them!
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u/Representative_Basil 1d ago
My roommate saw him in the stands while watching the open and she said “oh Bobby flay is making out with some hot blonde girl” and I was so excited to drop a top chef bomb on her
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u/Guilty-Chair8556 13h ago
This is an unflattering picture of both of them, but I agree that overall Bobby is looking old. When he does his insta stories and zooms in on his face, you can see it for sure. Brooke seems to always be sort of in limbo with her appearance and I wonder if she is most comfortable back in her frumpy Top Chef days with her hair in those weird pigtails.
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u/Barctic48 4h ago
Network must have seen star power in her. She seems to be a fantastic chef and though pretty before the handlers really glammed her up and changed her sweet girl-next-door self. Now she is divorced from the husband who helped her build her businesses and is with BFlay. She could do better.
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u/Barctic48 4h ago
Wall Street-butts glad someone finally said it. Potential contribution to her divorce.
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u/1222sammy 2d ago
Same I agree. Something makes them an odd pair. Maybe because they look related? Older brother maybe
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u/schleep_69 2d ago
I like them together, I think them being a couple makes sense. Hopefully Bobby has chilled out from his womanizer days. Brooke is so gorgeous, I was seriously shocked to learn she’s almost 50! I thought maybe 40 at most
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u/Late-Researcher7102 3d ago
In the 2nd pic, she looks like a daughter of his, not GF.
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u/lidder444 3d ago
She’s close to 50 years old. No one thinks it’s his daughter.
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u/Late-Researcher7102 2d ago
I said LIKE A daughter i know no one thinks its HIS daughter. sorry you misunderstood. Like she looks like she could be like his daughter, not a GF.
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u/makama77 1d ago
A daughter he had at the age of 13 ? lol
She doesn’t look LIKE a daughter of his at all
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u/Late-Researcher7102 1d ago
LoL you are just NOT getting what I'm trying to say. Let me simplify for you what I meant: She looks so young here standing next to him, that she doesn't look like a girlfriend of his, but standing next to a guy that could be his Dad. Okay bye
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u/makama77 1d ago
Hmmm. You’ve repeatedly said that she looks ‘like a daughter to him’ but also ‘not like HIS daughter’ so what you’re trying to say is that she looks like someone’s daughter?
More than one person has responded to you in the same way, so the issue seems to be with the communicator not with the reader. It seems to be either that, or that you just don’t like people disagreeing with you.
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u/One-Sea-6153 2d ago
My only thought was "are both of them really that lonely?!” I liked the writer he was with last. Makes me think he can't handle an intellectual. Maybe he was too busy all the time. Maybe another FN chef is the only one to understand his schedule, but he sure seems to make time to step out with Brooke and he didn't with Christina .
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u/StopWhoaYesWait123 2d ago
The closeup of her at The US Open did her no favors. Her skin is atrocious.
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u/makama77 2d ago
Wow and here people wonder why she (and others in the spotlight) get work done? Why point out her perceived flaws? It just makes you seem mean and insecure. I’m SURE your skin is flawless, even at nearly 50. 🙄
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u/StopWhoaYesWait123 1d ago
Not even close to 50 and my skin is perfect! And if I had warts or growths on my face, I would definitely get them removed.
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u/makama77 1d ago
You realize that at some point, hopefully, you will be close to 50? For your sake, I hope you don’t end up reading mean girl comments (like yours) about yourself from ignorant people online. You just sound jealous and superficial tbh.
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u/Desperate-Ad-3705 2d ago
If this becomes the norm like posting about Guy and Hunter... I trust that this sub will do the right thing and riot.
We dont care. Stop posting it.
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u/almondsmana 3d ago
Why does everybody here hate them being together? They are grown ass adults. Yes, he has cheated, yes she is younger. But they are both ADULTS. She's 47 and he is 60, people act like he is robbing the cradle, she's almost 50! This isn't a huge age gap, I just don't get the hate. Get a life!