HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Giada De Laurentiis is slamming a tabloid report that claims she had an affair with John Mayer.
The Nov. 22 issue of Star magazine alleges the married Food Network star hooked up with the singer last month at New York's Hotel Gansevoort, "where they disappeared into a suite together."
"It is a shame a media outlet such as Star needs to rely on disgraceful lies and hide behind false anonymous 'sources' in order to entertain their readers," a rep for De Laurentiis told Us Weekly in a statement Wednesday. "When the Star reporter approached Giada De Laurentiis on Sunday, while she was co-hosting a children's cancer fundraiser, Giada responded unequivocally that she did not see John Mayer when she was in New York for the Food and Wine Festival. Furthermore, contrary to the claims of an anonymous 'source,' at no time did Giada step foot in the Gansevoort Hotel."
"Giada indeed met John Mayer briefly at a charity event in 2007 but has not seen him since," the statement continued. "To be clear, they are not friends and cannot even go so far as to call John Mayer an acquaintance. There is not a sliver of truth to Star magazine's story. It is unfortunate Star would publish these malicious untruths without reporting the fact that Giada was with her husband Todd that weekend in New York, along with their family and friends. Giada De Laurentiis and her family deserve an apology and we demand an immediate retraction."
Mayer's rep also denied the cheating allegations, calling them "absolutely ridiculous."
De Laurentiis, 40, has a 2-year-old daughter with her husband of seven years, Anthropologie fashion designer Todd Thompson.
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