Food Network's Sunny Anderson agrees to pay stylist $4K after Emmy disagreement
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Food Network chef Sunny Anderson agreed to fork over $4,000 after being sued in Brooklyn small-claims court for failing to pay a stylist who dressed her for the Daytime Emmy Awards earlier this year.
Stylist Oksana Pidhoreckyj, who worked with Anderson on her show “The Kitchen,” filed a complaint in September, saying the chef owed her $5,000 “for services rendered.”
The stylist said she was only supposed to spend two days working on Anderson’s wardrobe for the Emmys last April — but the job took longer because the chef wasn’t happy with her initial selections.
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“When she received my revised invoice, her manager explained that she doesn’t want to pay me for a job I didn’t do correctly the first time,” she said.
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“I explained to her manager the process and that Sunny changed her mind.”
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Anderson showed up to small-claims court without a lawyer on Monday, wearing a long denim jacket and jeans.
The pair settled in mediation, with Anderson agreeing to pay the stylist $4,000, documents show.
“I’ve worked with her on a TV show for years…so like I would probably have settled with her for meeting in the middle if she like..but she is like ‘I’m not f—ing paying you anything,’” Pidhoreckyj told The Post.
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“I said I want a check and she goes, ‘Are you going to frame it?’ I said, ‘I’m going to cash it.’”
Anderson couldn’t be reached for comment.
This article originally appeared in The New York Post.