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Chrissy Teigen’s cookware line no longer sold by Target

Chrissy Teigen’s frying pans are out of Target and into the fire — but not for the reason you might think.

The retailer is no longer offering Teigen’s line of cookware on its website, TMZ reported Thursday, a poorly timed revelation given the multi-hyphenate’s ongoing drama with Courtney Stodden.

However, the site’s sources note that the scrub actually occurred last month and that while the cookware line was initially exclusively offered through Target, “late last year, they decided to end the exclusivity.”

Target confirmed the move to Page Six: “We made the mutual decision in December to no longer carry the cookware line, given our continued focus on brands we develop and that can only be found at Target.” (Teigen’s line of cookbooks, however, is still available on Target’s website.)

Teigen’s cookware is now out into the wider world, “most notably on [Teigen’s] own website … and through several other retailers,” TMZ’s source continued.

“All of these business moves were in motion long before Courtney, rightfully, raised their issues with Chrissy’s treatment of them.”

Chrissy Teigen's cookware line has been scrubbed from Target's website, though her cookbooks are still for sale there.
Chrissy Teigen’s cookware line has been scrubbed from Target’s website, though her cookbooks are still for sale there. Getty Images ; Instagram

Of course, the optics of the apparently routine retail shuffle could be better, as it’s getting noticed following a recent Daily Beast interview in which Stodden delved into Teigen’s 2011 cyberbullying. (Stodden initially began airing their past with Teigen in March.)

Ten years ago, Teigen, 35, wasn’t just publicly tweeting things to Stodden — who has since come out as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns — like “I hate you,” “my Friday fantasy: you. Dirt nap” and “go. To sleep. forever,” but also privately DM’ing them and telling them to kill themselves.

“Things like, ‘I can’t wait for you to die,'” Stodden told the Daily Beast.

Chrissy Teigen's cookware line has vanished from Target's website amid the fallout from her past cyberbullying of Courtney Stodden.
Chrissy Teigen’s cookware line has vanished from Target’s website amid the fallout from her past cyberbullying of Courtney Stodden. Getty Images

Teigen, who ironically took a brief hiatus from Twitter recently, citing “negativity” that left her “deeply bruised,” issued a lengthy apology to Stodden this week.

“I was an insecure, attention-seeking troll,” she wrote. “I am ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behavior but that … is nothing compared to how I made Courtney feel.”

“I’m so sorry, Courtney,” Teigen tweeted. “I hope you can heal now knowing how deeply sorry I am.”

Teigen added that she’d attempted to reach out to Stodden privately for an apology, though Stodden responded that they had never been contacted by Teigen or her team and that the “Cravings” author had in fact blocked them on Twitter.

Stodden added, “All of me wants to believe this is a sincere apology, but it feels like a public attempt to save her partnerships with Target and other brands who are realizing her ‘wokeness’ is a broken record.”