‘A Greatest Good friend That You are Relationship’ (Unique)

Bobby Flay and Brooke Williamson have a working relationship that started lengthy earlier than the pair started relationship this 12 months.

The cooks each seem on the brand new season of BBQ Brawl — Flay as a workforce captain and Williamson as a decide — and the Beat Bobby Flay star weighed in on what it’s been like taking their relationship from skilled to non-public.

“Nicely, to start with, I have been associates with Brooke without end,” he tells PEOPLE. “I imply, she and I’ve been associates for a very long time and so we shot this present earlier than we began really formally relationship. So it has all the time sort of been the identical for me.”

“She’s been on the present mainly because the inception,” he provides of the culinary competitors, which premiered in 2019. “So it is all the time been enjoyable to sort of have her round as a result of we have been associates, however now going ahead, it is slightly bit totally different. So we’ll see what that brings.”

Flay went on to mirror on the 2 Meals Community stars’ similarities.

“I really like working with Brooke,” he says. “We now have quite a bit in widespread. We’re very fortunate. We’re each cooks. We each have children. We’re each mother and father.”

Williamson has a son, Hudson, from her earlier marriage to Nick Roberts, and Flay has a daughter, Sophie Flay, from his marriage to Kate Connelly.  

The duo, who went public with their relationship in March, additionally work collectively on Bobby’s Triple Menace, and Williamson has competed on Beat Bobby Flay.

“We’re each within the restaurant enterprise,” he continues. “We now have tons to speak about when it comes to the issues that we like to do in addition to simply go and have dinner each on occasion. So it has been actually nice. And one of many issues I actually like about being in a relationship with Brooke is that she’s nice to bounce issues off of. Like we ask one another’s opinion about issues that we’re doing meals clever or restaurant clever or enterprise clever, on a regular basis. So it is very nice to have sort of a finest buddy that you simply’re relationship that can be useful answering the questions that you’ve.”

Flay additionally shared loads of reward for the sequence’ different judges, Rodney Scott and Carson Kressley.

“Rodney brings these barbecue chops to the desk,” he says. “When the contenders or the contestants see him, it is like they’re in awe of him due to how profitable he is been within the barbecue world. So it is good to have his credentials as a part of the judging panel.”

Kressley, he provides, is “hysterical and he brings levity to the present.”

“However Carson has nice style, not simply in his garments, but additionally the best way he tastes meals,” Flay provides. “I imply, he actually is aware of what he is speaking about. He is not knowledgeable chef, in fact, however he is that particular person that actually appreciates issues which might be good and if it isn’t, he’ll be capable to inform you. Carson has been an incredible piece of the present. I feel the Carson dimension is a large motive why the present is so profitable.”

This season noticed the addition of latest captains Maneet Chauhan and Antonia Lofaso, who carry “severe renewed power” to the present, Flay says.

“Once I requested them to do that, they ready themselves so extremely properly for therefore lengthy previous to capturing this,” he remembers. “I imply, they did tons of analysis. They had been training, cooking, all this type of live-fire cooking, they usually actually introduced their very own type of power and perspective and clearly flavors to it. And I’ll say that they saved me on my toes the complete time.”