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Sandra Lee and Ben Youcef split after 5 years, call off engagement

Sandra Lee and Ben Youcef split after 5 years, call off engagement

Put a fork in it.

Sandra Lee and her fiancé, Ben Youcef, have called it quits, ending their engagement after five years together.

The former Food Network star’s rep confirmed the breakup news to TMZ on Wednesday.

Sandra Lee and fiancé Ben Youcef (both seen above at an event in 2024) have called it quits. Getty Images for Elton John AIDS Foundation
The former Food Network star’s rep confirmed the split news to TMZ. (Pictured: Lee and Youcef at the Hollywood Reporter Most Powerful People In Media in 2022.) Getty Images for The Hollywood Reporter

Page Six has reached out to Youcef and a rep for Lee for comment but did not immediately hear back.

Last week, TMZ obtained a video of Lee — sans her engagement ring — while she was out and about at La Boca in New York City.

At the time, the “Semi-Homemade Cooking” host dodged questions about a prospective wedding date, telling the outlet she was focused on her career.

When questioned about her missing ring, Lee claimed her outfit didn’t call for jewelry.

Lee (seen with Youcef at a pre-Grammys event 2024) in dodged questions about her wedding date and why she wasn’t wearing her engagement ring last week. Getty Images
The actor and the “Semi-Homemade Cooking” host (both seen above at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards) began dating 2021. Getty Images for Bulleit Frontier Whiskey

Lee, 59, and Youcef, 47, began dating in 2021 after meeting at a restaurant in Santa Monica, California.

That August, the chef and the “Algerian” actor got engaged and celebrated their relationship milestone in Paris.

A source told Page Six at the time that the couple were “definitely in the midst of planning their wedding” and “looking at places in New York and the Hamptons.”

Before getting with Youcef, Lee was in a 14-year relationship with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

They got engaged later that year. (Pictured: Lee and Youcef at Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 30th Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party in 2022.) Getty Images for Elton John AIDS Foundation
Lee was in a 14-year relationship with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (seen above with the chef at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018) before dating Youcef. Getty Images for HBO

The duo split in September 2019 over a comment the politician, 68, made in the kitchen, according to Lee.

“The minute he said it, I knew what he’d just said. And every window and door closed,” she told Us Weekly in August 2024. “And that was it. … He knows what it is; I know what it is.”

The following year, Lee made headlines for shouting at an Eataly NYC Downtown employee, “Do you know who I am? I’m Andrew Cuomo’s ex-wife?”


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