Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Ann Bertinelli is an American actress and television personality. She portrayed Barbara Cooper Royer on the sitcom One Day at a Time and Gloria on the religious drama series Touched by an Angel. Since 2015, she has hosted the cooking shows Valerie’s Home Cooking and Kids Baking Championship on Food Network.

About Valerie Bertinelli in brief

Summary Valerie BertinelliValerie Ann Bertinelli is an American actress and television personality. She portrayed Barbara Cooper Royer on the sitcom One Day at a Time and Gloria on the religious drama series Touched by an Angel. Since 2015, she has hosted the cooking shows Valerie’s Home Cooking and Kids Baking Championship on Food Network. Bertinelli was born in Wilmington, Delaware to Nancy and Andrew Bertinelli, a General Motors executive. She has three brothers: David, Patrick and Drew. An elder brother, Mark, died at 17 months from accidental poisoning before she was born.

She married Eddie Van Halen on April 11, 1981 and had a son, Wolfgang. The couple separated in 2001 and divorced on December 20, 2007. In May 2010, Bertinelli announced her engagement to financial planner Tom Vitale, with whom she had begun a relationship in 2004. In 2012, she received the 2,476th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The following year, she appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? and found she was related to I King of England.