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Valerie Bertinelli’s long and celebrated career includes being an equally beloved actress, Emmy Award-winning host, New York Times Best-selling author, spokesperson, and entrepreneur. Valerie starred in her own show on Food Network entitled Valerie’s Home Cooking, where she shared her passion for preparing delicious meals for her friends and family. She received two Daytime Emmy nominations for ‘Outstanding Culinary Program’ and ‘Outstanding Culinary Host’ for the show. Valerie also starred in Kids Baking Championship alongside Duff Goldman, where she sought to find the most impressive and creative young baker in the country. Valerie has also served as a correspondent for The Today Show, The Rachael Ray Show and as co-host of The Talk. Valerie has also expanded her presence on The Drew Barrymore Show” as a regular lifestyle expert contributor since 2025, sharing her expertise and authentic perspective on topics ranging from cooking to relationships.

Her bestselling memoir, “Getting Naked,” explores insecurity, vulnerability, and self-acceptance as she reflects on growing older, loving harder, and starting over. Valerie also recently launched Valerie’s Place, her digital home powered by Visible Things, offering fans direct access to exclusive original programming including cooking shows, an all-new podcast, and interactive experiences like live cooking sessions and a book club. Coming this May, Valerie will star opposite Eric McCormack and Henry Czerny in the Lifetime film Love, Again, the heartwarming drama follows Caroline as she navigates her husband’s early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis and discovers an unexpected friendship that helps her find strength during life’s most difficult trials.

For six seasons, Valerie starred as Melanie Moretti in TV Land’s hit sitcom Hot in Cleveland. The show followed three fabulous friends from Los Angeles (Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick) whose plane, bound for Paris, was forced to make an emergency landing in Cleveland. In 2011, Hot in Cleveland was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award® for ‘Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.’ In June of that same year, Valerie – along with co-stars Leeves, Malick, and Betty White.

As one of Hollywood’s brightest young talents, Valerie helped develop, produce, and star in many highly rated TV movies and stayed extremely busy as one of primetime’s go-to actresses for movies and mini-series. Her television credits include Shattered Vows, Judith Krantz’s I’ll Take Manhattan, Rockabye, Murder of Innocence, In a Child’s Name, What She Doesn’t Know, Pancho Barnes, Ultimate Betrayal, Two Mothers for Zachary, I Was a Mail Order Bride, The Seduction of Gina, Silent Witness, and Night Sins. She guest-starred on Boston Legal in a part David E. Kelly wrote especially for her. Her other forays into the television series world include starring for two years on the hit series Touched by an Angel, Café Americain, and Sydney, which she also executive produced. Now a two-time Golden Globe® winner, Valerie made her acting debut in TV commercials, public service announcements, and the TV series Apple’s Way before landing her big break at age 14 as Barbara Cooper on One Day At A Time, Norman Lear’s 1975 acclaimed series about a divorced mother raising her two daughters. The series ran on CBS for nine years.

Immediately following her Stage Appearance, don’t miss your chance to meet Valerie as she signs copies of her memoir “Getting Naked” at the Barnes & Noble Booth at the Expo!