Valerie Bertinelli‘s departure from “Children Baking Championship” isn’t a cut-and-dry case of Meals Community firing the “One Day at a Time” alum from her position as co-host and decide of the present. Relatively, it’s the aftermath of the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned channel deciding to not renew Bertinelli’s bigger unique take care of the community when it resulted in 2022, sources inform Selection.

Bertinelli signed a multi-series take care of Meals Community in 2018, which expired in 2021. The pact was prolonged for a further 12 months and got here to an finish in 2022, when the at present airing Season 12 of “Children Baking Championship” was taped again to again with Season 11. Bertinelli has co-hosted and judged ‘Children,” a derivative of Meals Community’s bigger “Baking Championship” competitors franchise that features vacation and seasonal iterations, alongside Duff Goldman because it first debuted on Meals Community in 2015.

“Her deal expired, they opted to not renew it. They might have come to me with a suggestion only for ‘Children.’ They by no means did. Easy as that,” Bertinelli’s longtime supervisor Marc Schwartz advised Selection Tuesday.

In response to insiders, the selection to not renew Bertinelli’s deal in 2022 was made by growth execs that now not work on the community: Former president Courtney White exited Meals Community in March 2022 forward of the shut of the Discovery-WarnerMedia merger, adopted quickly by her alternative Jane Latman in December 2022. Betsy Ayala has been within the chief submit since that point.

Bertinelli’s deal ended greater than a 12 months in the past, and he or she has no tasks at present filming or in growth at Meals Community. A supply near the state of affairs says a suggestion was not made by the community for Bertinelli to proceed as co-host on “Children” as a result of Meals Community was led to imagine that if it didn’t additionally renew her unique multi-series total deal, Bertinelli wouldn’t settle for a suggestion to proceed on “Children.” (Meals Community opted to not renew Bertinelli’s total deal amid price range cuts and mass layoffs throughout Warner Bros. Discovery in its post-merger consolidation.)

Representatives for Meals Community and Bertinelli declined to remark for this story.

In a video posted to Instagram Saturday, Bertinelli mentioned she obtained affirmation Friday night time on one thing she had been “avoiding going through”: she had not been requested again to “Children Baking Championship” for a thirteenth season.

“Children” is at present airing its twelfth season, with episodes that function Bertinelli and have been taped again to again with Season 11 in the summertime of 2022. Selection has confirmed “Scrumptious Miss Brown” host Kardea Brown, who hosted the 2023 “Children Baking Championship” vacation particular with Goldman, will return as decide for the 2024 vacation version of “Children,” however that no choice has been made on the community relating to expertise hooked up to future seasons of the principle collection, which has not but been renewed for Season 13. No episodes of “Children Baking Championship” correct have been filmed with out Bertinelli.

Bertinelli advised her followers Saturday that she believed Meals Community’s choice to not ask her to return as host was as a consequence of “price range cuts,” and famous the at present airing “Children Baking Championship” episodes have been recorded in the summertime of 2022, her “apex 12 months of hell,” whereas she was going via her divorce from ex-husband Tom Vitale.

“With out sounding like a drama queen, the present saved my life,” Bertinelli, who beforehand hosted “Valerie’s Dwelling Cooking” and “Household Meals Showdown” at Meals Community, mentioned within the Instagram video. “Simply working with all of these actually great folks and feeling productive and figuring out I may unfold some kindness, and never simply wallow in my hell and simply attempt to preserve my head above water. It helped me, it was like a flotation gadget. So it actually hurts that I gained’t be capable of return and see everyone and say, ‘Hey, I made it via,’” she added.

On Sunday, Bertinelli took to Twitter to make clear a “tad deceptive” Folks journal headline that cited sources saying “talks stalled” with Meals Community execs over her return to “Children”: “There have been by no means any talks, so no talks could possibly be stalled. I obtained an inkling I may not be requested again after I noticed I used to be not within the vacation specials. I obtained a textual content by a 3rd celebration on Friday that advised me I’d not be again. LOL I used to be principally ghosted.”

Followers have rallied round Bertinelli on social media, together with Khloe Kardashian and Mark Hamill, to voice their help for Bertinelli persevering with on as co-host of “Children Baking Championship.”

A supply near Bertinelli advised Selection Tuesday, “Clearly, she’s dissatisfied. She had a good time engaged on the present,” however that “she has no ill-will towards Meals Community.”

Subsequent up, Bertinelli is heading out on her cookbook tour for “Indulge: Scrumptious and Decadent Dishes to Get pleasure from and Share.” She is at present evaluating presents from different platforms for future tasks and offers.

BreAnna Bell contributed to this story.