The cook and tv personailty made an appearance on 'The Wendy Williams Show' to promote her cookbook, Happy Cooking: Make Every Meal Count...Without Stressing Out'. During the show's cooking segment host wasted no time asking De Laurentiis if she was was back in the dating scene after her divorce from Todd Thompson back in September of last year after 11 years of marriage. She commented, "Cooking really helped me get through it. It made me happy." And although the cook said she is beginning to date again she dismissed those rumors about be linked to celebrity chef Bobby Flay, who split with his wife Stephanie March in the spring.