12 Things You Don't Know About Giada De Laurentiis

She was discovered after a network executive read an article about her and her family in Food and Wine magazine. "An executive at the Food Network found the article and read the recipes, and called me up saying he was looking to do an Italian cooking show and asked if I had experience. He said he had seen my recipes and seen me but didn't know how I'd be on camera, so he asked me to put together a demo. Nine months later I did it, and Everyday Italian was born — purely accidentally," Giada explained in an interview with Food and Wine.