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Posted on 03/25/2011 1:15:17 PM PDT by inflorida
The Make-a-Wish Foundation had to break some bad news to a 6-year-old cancer patient this week ... when Food Network star Ina Garten informed them she was too busy to cook a meal with the boy ... TMZ has learned.
A family member involved with the Make-A-Wish foundation tells us ... a little boy named Enzo was approached by the organization after he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia three years ago.
Enzo told Make-A-Wish ... he really wanted to cook with the "Barefoot Contessa" host because he would often watch the show with his mother while resting in bed.
M.A.W. approached Garten with the wish last year ... but at the time, she was unable to meet with Enzo due to a book tour. The organization urged Enzo to pick another wish, but he told them he wanted to wait until she becomes available.
We're told the organization went back to Ina this year ... but her team responded with a "definite no" ... once again, citing scheduling conflicts.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
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She answers the email she gets.
Start emailing her sponsors and cc her to them.
She’ll cave in a veil of crocodile tears.
Isn’t her hubby on Madison Avenue...doesn’t he have any PR experience.?
Don’t know the situation, don’t know the reasons why she would choose to decline, can’t make a judgment on that.
But making this a public matter is wrong. Unless there was a solid commitment and then a breach of one’s word, then no one should have know about it beyond those directly involved.
It’s none of the world’s business.
She’s an elitist lib. Her husband is a professor at NYU which should be telling. Her friends are all gay which also says a lot. She’s a bloated, fat fag hag that has no sympathy for the sick. They just take up space in her world.
Maybe she would of cooked for him if the kid was a gay floral designer!
Don’t you people know she’s a lefitst TWA.?
One of the worst.
Gads. You guys don’t even know who your enemies are.
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Originally employed as a low-level government aide, Ina Garten climbed the political ladder to the Office of Management and Budget and was assigned the position of budget analyst, which entailed writing the nuclear energy budget and policy papers on nuclear centrifuge plants for Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Garten left her government job in 1978 after spotting an ad for a 400-square-foot specialty food store in Westhampton Beach, New York. The store was named Barefoot Contessa. “My job in Washington was intellectually exciting and stimulating but it wasn’t me at all,” she told The New York Times four years later. She made a hasty decision to purchase the store after traveling to view it, and moved to New York to assume ownership and management. The store had been named by its original owner in tribute to the 1954 film starring Ava Gardner; Garten kept the name when she took over, as it meshed well with her idea of an “elegant but earthy” lifestyle.
Her husband, Jeffrey Garten, went on to become the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration from 1995 to 2005 and dean of the Yale School of Management. He is now the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business at Yale. He can also frequently be seen on her cooking show, assisting his wife with simple tasks or sampling the dishes she has created.
After Johns Hopkins, Garten worked in the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. He then went on to Wall Street, becoming a managing director of Lehman Brothers[1] and the Blackstone Group. At Lehman, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America. He also lived in Tokyo and directed and expanded the Asian investment banking business for that firm. At Blackstone he worked in the financial advisory and mergers and acquisitions arena.
The Gartens live in Southport, Connecticut, and East Hampton, New York.
They divide their time between Manhattan, East Hampton, and Paris.
She’s one of the worst.
Surrounded by a lot of people who are in the fudge packing business.
Someone, somewhere - needs to be making a list.
One day. One day.
Although I imagine He already is.
I can only hope we humans lack infinite patience.
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Originally employed as a low-level government aide, Ina Garten climbed the political ladder to the Office of Management and Budget and was assigned the position of budget analyst, which entailed writing the nuclear energy budget and policy papers on nuclear centrifuge plants for Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Garten left her government job in 1978 after spotting an ad for a 400-square-foot specialty food store in Westhampton Beach, New York. The store was named Barefoot Contessa. “My job in Washington was intellectually exciting and stimulating but it wasn’t me at all,” she told The New York Times four years later. She made a hasty decision to purchase the store after traveling to view it, and moved to New York to assume ownership and management. The store had been named by its original owner in tribute to the 1954 film starring Ava Gardner; Garten kept the name when she took over, as it meshed well with her idea of an “elegant but earthy” lifestyle.
Her husband, Jeffrey Garten, went on to become the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration from 1995 to 2005 and dean of the Yale School of Management. He is now the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business at Yale. He can also frequently be seen on her cooking show, assisting his wife with simple tasks or sampling the dishes she has created.
After Johns Hopkins, Garten worked in the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. He then went on to Wall Street, becoming a managing director of Lehman Brothers[1] and the Blackstone Group. At Lehman, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America. He also lived in Tokyo and directed and expanded the Asian investment banking business for that firm. At Blackstone he worked in the financial advisory and mergers and acquisitions arena.
The Gartens live in Southport, Connecticut, and East Hampton, New York.
They divide their time between Manhattan, East Hampton, and Paris.
From the looks of him, he works at night with a carry along mattress.
There's probably no chrome on any of their trailer hitches.
Practice, practice, practice.
I like Food Network but not her show.Just somethign about her bothers me.I can’t udnerstadn how m=anyone couldn’t take a little time out to meet the kid? Even if she didn’t have time to cook she could always bring the food and meet him for 1/2 an hour?
She is getting ripped several *new ones* on the FN blogs.
Write to the FN sponsors.
http://www.foodnetworkstore.com
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Mike Holmes SAVE US!
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Give me a break. It's not like he wished for a trip to the moon.
The dolphins have more class than Ina.
Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America
Ina Garten Statement
PHOENIX (March 25, 2011) – The Make-A-Wish Foundation has a very strong working relationship with Ina Garten, a celebrity wish granter who has generously made herself available to grant a wish in the past. Ina is a good friend of the Foundation and we are grateful to her for her support of our mission.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. From time to time, planning for wishes doesn’t turn out as originally envisioned, despite people’s best intentions and efforts. In such cases, the Foundation is committed to working with the wish child and family to grant another wish.
Each wish we grant requires extensive support from many people, and we respect that no individual has an unlimited capacity to grant children’s wishes on demand.
We regard the planning of wishes as a private process among the parties involved. Thus we cannot respond to questions about any particular wish in progress.
Individuals who are interested in learning more about the wish-granting process, or how they can help, are encouraged to visit wish.org.
When you're a public personality, you have to be aware of these things, and you just have to be wondering what she was thinking.
She's in damage control mode now because this story is rampant on the internet. Her publicist probably scribbled this statement out after seeing the commotion and peeing his or her pants. Just do a google search. Has she done requests in the past? Well, according to her statement she has. However, it isn't the ones you grant that'll haunt you. It's the ones you don't. PR wise, this was a no-brainer. Now, she's Ina, the heartless monster who won't grant a wish to a 6-year-old fan who is dying of cancer.
I bet she doesn’t even cook - but has underlings do her work for her.
She supports Planned Parenthood for God’s sake! She’s a pig.
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