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Alton and DeAnna were married for 21 years, much during Alton's rise to becoming one of Food Network's most popular and prolific stars. The two were deeply devoted to their Southern Baptist. Alton was baptized in , but he said that he couldn't accept the anti-gay stand of Southern Baptist Convention and subsequently took a break from church. How Much Is Alton Brown’s Net Worth?.

In , after 21 years of marriage, Alton Brown filed to divorce DeAnna. According to a report from E! News at the time, the two had apparently been trying to make it work, without success. With Netflix’s “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend,” which premiered this week, Brown has officially departed from his long tenure at Food Network, where he was a staple for 21 years.

Brown said in a December interview in Time that he "could no longer abide the Southern Baptist Convention 's indoctrination of children and its anti-gay stance" adding that he is now "searching for a new belief system.". Celebrity chef Alton Brown has apologized after making a "flippant remark" about the Holocaust on Twitter.

The apology comes after a whirlwind of a week for the Food Network star, who delighted fans with his election night tweets before he began discussing his conservative beliefs. He later requested an apology from Newsweek for calling him a Republican. It all came to a head on Tuesday night, when Brown tweeted: "Do you think camp uniforms will be striped, like the ones at Auschwitz, or will plaid be in vogue? Brown took to Twitter on Wednesday morning to apologize for his tweet, which has since been deleted.

It was a very poor use of judgement and in poor taste. On Monday, Brown tweeted that he had voted Republican for "most of my life. A number of fans were dismayed by Brown's statement, and the "Good Eats" star was quick to respond to their criticism. But that wasn't the end of it. Brown's comments were then picked up by Newsweek , which ran a headline stating that he was a Republican.

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In response to the story , Brown tweeted that while he had voted for Republicans in the past, it wasn't the "same as being a Republican. The Georgia native said he had voted for and "strongly supports" Biden and Kamala Harris, as well as Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff — the Democratic candidates who are both running for Senate seats in the state's January runoff elections.

Brown also spoke out against Georgia's incumbent Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who are currently fighting for reelection. I own multiple businesses in Ga. I employ Georgians. My home is Georgia. And my senators are embarrassing me and the state they are supposed to represent," he wrote in the since-deleted tweets, which were obtained by Newsweek.

The headline on the Newsweek story was changed to "Alton Brown reveals he's voted Republican and fans are not impressed. During the ial election, the celebrity chef refused to reveal who he had voted for — and sent his fans a clear message. Brown seemed to stick to that rule at the beginning of last week, alluding to his election anxiety through food rather than clear proclamations about his political beliefs and joking about how he was going to "mainline moon pies and snort cheese powder.

It was a rant that delighted fans, with Uproxx writing that Brown's tweets "perfectly capture our election anxiety. The photo showed a page from the appendix of Brown's cookbook, where he'd listed "The Frugal Gourmet," a cookbook by the late PBS star Jeff Smith, alongside the line: "This was my first cookbook. I don't care what he does or did in his personal life. Everything in here worked back then and it still does.

Smith was accused of sexually abusing eight teenage boys in multiple lawsuits filed in Just days before one of his cases was set to go to trial, Smith settled with seven of his accusers, most of whom said the alleged abuse happened in the s, for an undisclosed sum.

Two of his accusers had worked for Smith. Robicelli tweeted that she was "literally obsessed" with Brown's show before she saw the note in his cookbook. A blog post from another Brown fan also resurfaced as discussions about the chef continued on Twitter, according to Eater. In "The Taste of Disillusionment," food blogger David Rheinstrom wrote about how he drove miles to see Brown, who he called one of his "great food heroes," speak in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Rheinstrom wrote that Brown had made jokes about gay parents and African Americans during the talk, even using the word "Negro. When the latter failed to get any laughs, Brown remarked: "Remind me not to make African American jokes in Iowa. Rheinstrom wrote that he left the talk without getting his book signed by Brown and had come to the conclusion that his favorite celebrity chef was a "jerk.