Ina Garten Agrees to Meet with "Make-A-Wish" Leukemia Patient

by Slashfood Editor, Posted Mar 30th 2011 @ 4:00PM

Ina Garten Photo: Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images

Oh, Ina, we knew you'd do the right thing. After a week of getting hammered online for her apparent refusal to meet with a six-year-old leukemia patient, Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten has agreed to grant the boy's Make-A-Wish request.

Last week, TMZ reported that Garten denied Enzo Pereda's requests due to scheduling conflicts, but Garten said she only learned of his requests this past weeekend. (Her spokesman says she gets "100 requests a month to support charitable causes" and can't answer them all.)

If she really wants Enzo to forgive her, she should pull out all the stops and bake up her gooey brownie pudding cake.

Get the whole story at The Huffington Post.

Filed Under: Celebrities, Chefs
Tags: ina garten, InaGarten, make-a-wish

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3-30-2011 @4:08PM M said... "If she really wants Enzo to forgive her"

Ina didn't do anything that requires forgiving. Enzo's mom was the one who acted poorly and made a big deal of it to Enzo and the media, then claimed "oh, I didn't want people boycotting, where did you get that idea (please pretend I didn't make previous posts encouraging that)!"

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3-30-2011 @4:11PM stipend said... Why would you print something that TMZ has smeared Ina with. She has been the victim of a witch hunt/lynch mob courtesy of TMZ. They should be held accountable for the garbage that was thrown at her as well as any publications that print their leis.
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3-30-2011 @9:19PM Annette M. Turek said... Article needed further proofreading for typos.
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3-31-2011 @8:51AM Gary said... Why on earth would anyone want to meet that snobby hag?
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3-31-2011 @5:28PM stuart said... I am a huge fan and would love to meet her. Too many people are taking the garbage from TMZ comments at face value. Too bad Ina can't sue for character assassination.

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3-31-2011 @9:54AM Buddyt said... She did not even know about the original request. Her "people" turned it down along with all of the hundreds of other requests. People are such haters without knowing all of the facts. Jealousy has a lot to do with it.
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