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Celeb Chef -- Too Busy for 'Make-A-Wish' Kid (Barefoot Contessa)

TMZ ^ | March 25, 2011 | TMZ Staff

Posted on 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.



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Health/Medicine

KEYWORDS:

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To: inflorida

My wife USED to watch that show all the time. I can promise you she won’t watch it ever again.



To: inflorida

Poor sweetheart! The only reason I have ever wanted to be someone with a public talent or wealth is so I can help people on a one on one basis, like this. I know if I were a celebrity chef, I would make time. For shame!



To: ChuckHam

You’d think they would jump at the chance to make it into a special episode. idiots.



by 4 posted onby GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)

To: inflorida

I’d rather have Miss DeLaurentis.



by 5 posted onby Perdogg (What Would Aqua Buddha do?)

To: inflorida

I don’t know anything about Ina Garten, but the kid’s family going to the press to attempt to smear her is really tacky.



To: inflorida

Her only excuse for missing this is if her own child was dying in bed that day. What a pig.



by 7 posted onby Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)

To: inflorida

Sweet, and mostly sad. I would twist myself in knots to make this happen. I am not a celebrity chef but I have 5 decades of cooking experience and do some really good stuff. I would use my own resources to travel and cook with this kid.



by 8 posted onby jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)

To: Perdogg

In many, many ways....



by 9 posted onby wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)

To: wac3rd

You caught my wave.



by 10 posted onby Perdogg (What Would Aqua Buddha do?)

To: inflorida

Couldn’t the miserable bitch or her publicist have rearranged her schedule to accommodate this wish? I can assure you that I will *never* watch her show again.



To: inflorida

The woman lives in the Hamptons and calls herself a contessa. Enough said.



by 12 posted onby Wiser now (Liberalism is immaturity, cloaked with the pretense of moral and intellectual superiority.)

To: inflorida

We like the Food Channel and have seen her show a few times. She strikes us as a snooty liberal.



To: inflorida

Maybe she really was busy. It’s easy for non-celebs to question the lives of those in the spotlight. Make A Wish may be a great organization, but they shouldn’t use their sympathetic kids to hold celebrities hostage. And it is up to the kids’ parents to moderate the kids’ expectations.



To: iowamark

A family member involved with the Make-A-Wish foundation tells us I read it as if the family member was a relative of someone at TMZ and that that relative was associated with Make-A-Wish.



by 15 posted onby IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmit in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)

To: GnL

Kids in the Make A Wish system don’t have “expectations”.



by 16 posted onby massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)

To: 5thGenTexan

I bet this guy would gladly have done it.



by 17 posted onby Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))

To: inflorida

It should be an honor to be selected as a child’s “wish”. Shame on Ina.



To: dinodino

He must be poor. Ina doesn’t travel within 5 miles of a poor person. She has faaaabulous dinner parties every night with her gay interior design friends in the Hamptons.



To: GnL

No matter how busy you are anyone with a heart would find an hour or two for a very sick child that idolizes you.



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