Bobby Flay Says Daughter Sophie 'Threatens' to Move Back Home but 'We’re Definitely Not Doing That'

Bobby Flay loves his daughter Sophie — but he doesn't want to be her roommate.

While appearing on the first episode of the All on the Table with Katie Lee Biegel podcast on Aug. 8, the celebrity chef, 59, said Sophie, 28, often jokes that she’s going to move back in with him "just to see" how he would react.

Flay told host Katie Lee Biegel about how he is remodeling his New York City apartment. And part of the renovation is turning his daughter’s old bedroom into "a much bigger kind of suite." (Sophie lives in Los Angeles where she works as a journalist for ABC7.)

"She thinks it's still her room, but she's wrong," laughed the Beat Bobby Flay star.

Lee Biegel inquired about his comment, saying, "Well, what's it gonna be if it's not her room? You have a lot of rooms in that apartment."

He answered, "It's gonna be another… I dunno. I just figured at 28 she has to, like, she has to relinquish her bedroom. Don’t you think?"

Lee Biegel said that she hopes her daughter, Iris, 3, still wants her bedroom when she’s that age.

"Sophie always threatens that she's gonna move back in with me just to see how I react," Flay said lightheartedly. "We're not doing that. I mean, no, no, no, no. No, we're definitely not doing that.”

"But, you know, obviously, she's always welcome,” the loving father added.

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The father-daughter duo share a close relationship. They recently visited Paris together for the 2024 Summer Olympics. During the trip, Sophie posted photos on Instagram of her and her father dressed up for a trip to the iconic Louvre.

Back in May, the chef opened up to PEOPLE about taking his daughter to the sporting event. "I got invited to Paris and Sophie was like, 'Yeah, I'm your plus one,' " he said. "She's worked the Olympics. When she was an intern at USC she worked for NBC, so she went to South Korea and she went to Rio. She considers herself my Olympic expert."

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Flay isn't the only celebrity chef who has contemplated having his adult child move back home.

Gordon Ramsay's wife Tana Ramsay recently shared that her four older children have moved back after their house was remodeled. "By the time we finished the project and moved back in three weeks ago, everyone has a bedroom again," Tana said on Postcards from Midlife. "They’ve all moved home. Holly lives in Nottingham, but she’s always coming back to London and obviously wants a bedroom with her boyfriend [swimmer Adam Peaty]."