"If you turned on the television any time in the late 2000s to mid-2010s or opened a trendy magazine, you'd see Buddy Valastro's face smiling back at you from beside some wild, monumental cake. His show, "Cake Boss," and subsequent location at Carlo's Bake Shop dominated mainstream media from the day it aired in 2009 to the day it came to a quiet stop in 2020. Valastro remains in mainstream media today, but things look a little different. So, what changed?"
"The same year that "Cake Boss" took an unexpected hiatus, Buddy Valastro suffered a horrific accident in which his right hand was impaled by equipment from his at-home bowling alley, leaving him unable to bake. He told TODAY that the magic that allows him to create his signature extravagant cakes "might not ever be there again," but he made a miraculous recovery within just one year after the accident."
Buddy Valastro rose to mainstream fame through Cake Boss and Carlo's Bake Shop, which dominated media from 2009 until 2020. Valastro lost his mother Mary to ALS in 2017 and took a two-year hiatus while the show filmed and aired without him, returning in 2019. Cake Boss went on hiatus again in 2020 as ratings declined and new baking shows increased competition. Valastro expanded into other ventures such as Buddy V's Ristorante. In 2020 his right hand was impaled in a bowling alley accident, temporarily preventing him from baking. He recovered within a year and later returned to television with Buddy Valastro's Cake Dynasty.
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