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Who is Anne Burrell’s husband Stuart Claxton?
Jun 26, 2025
Anne Burrell met the love of her life, Stuart Claxton, seven years before her sudden death on June 17. She was 55.
Here’s what to know about Burrell’s husband in the wake of her tragic passing.
He and Burrell met on a dating app
The Food Network star and Claxton matched on the dating app Bumble in 2018.
During an interview with People in 2020, Burrell said that she and Claxton “both knew immediately” that they were right for each other.
“I don’t know if we had both thought of marriage, but we both were like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is something,'” she said at the time. “This is really going to be real, and this is going to turn into something.'”
“Once you get to be a woman of 50 years old, you don’t really think that marriage is going to be on the plate for you,” Burrell continued. “I was always really focused on my career, and marriage was never a huge thing in my life that I was looking for. Then, when I met Stuart, my opinion about all that changed.”
He proposed to Burrell during the COVID-19 pandemic
After two years of dating, Claxton proposed to the beloved cooking icon in April 2020.
He popped the question during a “date night” in Burrell’s hometown of Cazenovia, N.Y., while they were isolating with her family amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“My mom and Stuart got together and made a plan where he and I were going to have a date night,” Burrell recalled shortly after the proposal. “We were having a nice time, and Stuart then starts saying, ‘Oh, this is a good song to put on a playlist for our wedding reception.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, sure. But why are we talking about that now?'”
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