Barefoot Contessa turns down sick kid's wish. Not cool.
Any six-year-old boy whose hero isn't Spiderman, but the Barefoot Contessa, is worth meeting. This particular boy also has leukemia. Through the Make-a-Wish foundation, he asked for the chance to cook with Food Network star Ina Garten, but was turned down...twice.
"As much as [Garten] would like to, it's absolutely impossible for her to grant every request she receives," Garten's rep told TMZ,
That may be true, but how many requests is she getting from cancer stricken 6-year-olds? Priorities Ina.
Enzo, the little boy, so desperately wanted to meet the chef he'd watched on TV, he held onto the wish after the foundation was turned down the first time. A year later he asked to meet her again, and again her handlers cited scheduling conflicts and gave the foundation a "definite no".
That's when Enzo was told to pick another wish. Now he's going to swim with dolphins, all of whom are not too busy to carry a kid on their fin for the day. Maybe all this bad press will have Ina reconsidering the request. But at this point, she might not be Enzo's hero anymore.
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