The famous chef Bobby Flay has been dating the writer Christina Pérez since 2021.
Bobby Flay and his girlfriend, Christina Pérez, first met through their mutual friends in 2020. The celebrity chef is a devoted father to his grown daughter Sophie - daughter of Flay and his ex-wife, Kate Connelly - who told Entertainment Tonight how important it is to have a strong bond between his girlfriend and her child, and he added that Sophie likes his girlfriend.
Who is Bobby Flay?
Robert William Flay, popularly known as Bobby Flay, was an American chef, restaurateur, and TV celebrity. He was most highly known for his frequent appearances on the television channel Food Network, where he initially drew attention as a leading contestant in Iron Chef America.
Bobby Flay is best known for his innovative cooking style and his love of traditional south-western and Mediterranean cuisine. Flay is a person who not only converted his passion from childhood to a full-time profession but has also proven to the world that it is very possible to achieve the heights of success by doing what you like to do the most. He's been into cooking since he was very young and wanted a furnace that was easy to use when he was 8 years old.
He eventually joined the Mesa Grill, after his French Culinary Institute course and graduated in culinary arts, where he worked as chief cook once. And that was only the first step to becoming the owner of a chain of successful restaurants.
Who is Christina Perez?
According to Closer Weekly reports, Christina Perez is the lead content manager and creative director of a company called Miss Grass, which sells various THC and CBD products.
She was a content writer for Vogue, Condé Nast, GQ, Architectural Digest, Glamour, and many others, depending on the company's official website. Originally from Wisconsin, she studied illustration and fashion design at the New York-based Fashion Institute of Technology.
Aside from becoming a journalist and running the business, Christina has traveled the world as a model, working across Japan to France, and Italy.
How did Flay and Perez meet each other?
Christina and Bobby first ran into each other in 2020. These two lovers were introduced to one another by mutual friends. They just instantly hit it off. The pair made their first joint public appearance at the Breeders' Cup World Championship in November 2021. That's where Flay's horse, Pizza Bianca, won the top spot and $520,000 in the territory of the Juvenile Fillies.
Before going out with Pérez, Flay had three marriages. They were Debra Ponzek from 1991 to 1993, Connelly from 1995 to 1998, and Stephanie March from 2005 to 2015. The marriage ended after she accused him of infidelity.