Jeffrey Garten: Last News

Apparently the romance sparks are still flying between Ina Garten and her husband Jeffrey Garten, even after nearly 54 years of marriage.During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, that's set to air next Monday, the host of the Food Network show Barefoot Contessa confessed her husband still sends her sexy texts, but that he 'sometimes they go astray.'She then proceeded to tell a story of how on one occasion, he mistakenly sent one of his racy texts to 'the wrong person', who happened to be her friend and publicist.

she briefly separated from her husband, Jeffrey Garten, in the 1970s. Kotb, 60, recently did a sit-down interview with Ina, 76, who recalled telling her husband of 10 years at the time that she needed to “be on my own for a little while,” which Jeffrey, 77, agreed to.“I felt I said the right thing but it was really scary because i said it to someone I really deeply loved,” Ina — who details the separation in her upcoming memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens” — shared to Kotb.On Wednesday’s “Today with Hoda and Jenna,” Kotb and Bush Hager, 42, commended the Food Network star for putting herself first in her marriage.“It sounds like the root of what happened was he was used to a traditional wife role, and she was coming into her own creating her business,” Kotb said.

Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” (out Oct. 1), per People, Ina shared that when she was 16, she visited her brother Ken at Dartmouth College. While on campus, her mother asked Ken to fix her up with a classmate.“I’d dressed in my best blue skirt, my favorite blue-­and-­white wool and angora sweater, the new blue Pappagallos that I’d bought with my own money so my mother couldn’t refuse to buy them for me, and a blue grosgrain ribbon in my hair,” the renowned chef wrote in her book.Of course, Jeffrey ended up spotting his now-wife of 56 years on campus, but soon found out there were other ingredients added to the mix that evening.

her now-husband, Jeffrey Garten. The couple dated for five years before tying the knot in 1968 in her parents’ Connecticut backyard when she was 20 and he was 22.Early on, Ina, 76, and Jeffrey, 77, decided not to have kids.“I really appreciate that other people do — and we will always have friends that have children that we are close to — but it was a choice I made very early,” the Food Network star said on the “Katie Couric Podcast” in 2017.“I really felt, I feel, that I would have never been able to have the life I’ve had,” Ina continued.

Ina Garten needed to add certain ingredients into the mix to make her marriage work. The Food Network star, 76, who has been married to her husband Jeffrey Garten for 56 years, detailed their one-time separation and near-divorce in the ’70s in her upcoming memoir “Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” per People Tuesday.Ina was working overtime running the specialty food store that would later shoot her into stardom, the Barefoot ­Contessa, but Jeffrey, 77, “expected a wife that would make dinner,” she wrote in an excerpt.“There were certain roles that we played, and I found them really annoying,” the Food Network host continued.

Ina Garten is opening up about her decision to not have kids.