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Buddy Valastro Height, Weight, Net Worth, Age, Birthday, Wikipedia, Who, Nationality, Biography

Author

Mia Tucker

Updated on February 21, 2026

Mate Valastro is an American dough puncher with Italian legacy and an unscripted tv star. He is the proprietor of Carlo’s Bakery, just as the essence of Buddy V’s Ristorante.

Valastro rose to notoriety as the star of the unscripted TV drama “Cake Boss,” which circulated in April 2009. He likewise showed up in ‘Kitchen Boss’ (2011), ‘Next Great Baker’ (2010), ‘Pal’s Bakery Rescue (2013), ‘Heat You Rich’ (2013), and ‘Bread shop Boss’ (2013).

Mate Valastro’s agents revealed in a selective assertion to TMZ that Buddy Valastro was associated with an awful bowling mishap. His right hand was pierced because of the mishap.

Born

Bartolo Valastro, Jr.

March 3, 1977 (age 44)

Hoboken, New Jersey

NationalityItalian-American
CitizenshipAmerican
OccupationOwner of Carlo’s Bakery, Buddy V’s Events & Buddy V’s Ristorante
Known forBaker, cake designer and host of Cake Boss
TelevisionCake Boss
Spouse(s)

Lisa Valastro

Children4
Parent(s)
  • Bartolo Valastro Sr.
  • Mary Valastro
Websitecarlosbakery.com

cakehousemedia.com

The pastry specialist was appreciating quality time with his family when the bowling mishap happened. With his youngsters, he had been bowling at their home’s bowling alley.

The delegate informed that the bowling pinsetter had broke down. Mate embedded his right hand into the enclosure’s component while eliminating the bowling pin. Deplorably, his right hand became caught and pressed inside the machine. Amigo couldn’t eliminate his hand, and a 11-and-a-half-inch metal bar more than once penetrated his hand between his ring and center fingers multiple times.

Afterward, the ‘Cake Boss’ was moved to a neighborhood medical clinic, where he went through crisis medical procedure. The pole was taken out, and the injury was endeavored to be balanced out. Before long the underlying activity, a subsequent one was acted in Manhattan by popular muscular specialist Dr. Michelle Carlson.

Mate Valastro is a hitched fellow, and Lisa Valastro is his significant other. On October 14, 2001, the pair sealed the deal. Valastro lived in East Hanover Township, New Jersey, with his better half Sofia and their four kids, Bartolo ‘Mate’ III, Marco, and Carlo, until 2014.


Amigo was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and grew up there and in Little Ferry, New Jersey. His mom was born in Altamura, Italy, and experienced childhood in New Jersey as the girl of Italian-American migrants.

In like manner, the pastry specialist’s dad, Buddy Sr, was additionally born in the Italian town of Lipari. Elegance, Mary, Maddalena, and Lisa were Valastro’s four sisters when he was growing up.

Valastro began working at Carlo’s Bakery, his family’s organization, when he was 11 years of age, close by his dad. Valastro was 17 years of age when his dad died in 1994. He expected control of the privately-run company. Instagram Account.