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Bobby Flay\u2019s daughter, Sophie Flay, will be coming to a screen near you as she takes on a new job as an ABC News correspondent in New York. <\/p>\n
The 29-year-old journalist, who has worked at ABC7 in Los Angeles since March 2019, will be taking her talents to New York, where she will serve not only as an ABC News correspondent but also as an overnight anchor for World News Now<\/em> and GMA First Look<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s official!!\u201d Sophie wrote on Instagram Thursday while announcing her big news. \u201cHonored to stay in the Disney\/ABC family and join ABC News as a correspondent and anchor for World News Now and GMA First Look, based in New York.\u201d <\/p>\n She concluded, \u201cThank you, Los Angeles, for an amazing 11 years!\u201d<\/p>\n The celebrity chef, who shares Sophie with ex-wife Kate Connelly, expressed how proud he is of his daughter in the comment section. <\/p>\n \u201cProud as can be,\u201d the Food Network star<\/a> wrote. \u201cYour work ethic and your desire to learn from your mentors has put you in this wonderful place of opportunity and importance. It\u2019s a parent\u2019s dream.\u201d<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time Bobby has expressed pride in his daughter\u2019s career. In February, the Beat Bobby Flay <\/em>star<\/a> told PEOPLE<\/em><\/a> that he was \u201cso proud\u201d of how Sophie covered the Los Angeles wildfires that devastated thousands<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s fantastic,\u201d the restaurateur gushed at the time. \u201cWhen the fires happened, I got so many comments from literally hundreds of people about how well she was just freestyling it out there on the front lines of the fire. She was spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n Bobby noted that he was watching the new station\u2019s app \u201c24 hours a day\u201d to stay updated, and Sophie \u201cdid not go to sleep.\u201d He marveled, \u201cI mean, it was crazy. \u2026But I was so proud of her because, most importantly, she was giving out really important information to people that needed it. And she was just so good. I was just like, \u2018Who is this girl?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source popculture.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bobby Flay\u2019s daughter, Sophie Flay, will be coming to a screen near you as she takes on a new job as an ABC News correspondent in New York. The 29-year-old journalist, who has worked at ABC7 in Los Angeles since March 2019, will be taking her talents to New York, where she will serve not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2127550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24120,379892,308243],"class_list":["post-2127549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-abc","tag-bobby-flay","tag-food-network"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bobby-Flays-Daughter-Lands-Big-TV-Job.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127551,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127549\/revisions\/2127551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}