Will Zak Bagans Be Able To Salvage ‘Halloween Wars’?

“Halloween Wars” is a seasonally themed culinary competition of the Food Network.

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Teams consist of a cake sculptor, a sugar artist, and a pumpkin carver competing for $50,000 dollars.

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Artists must create a spooky culinary creation based on a specific theme each episode.

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This year, fans expressed outrage after pumpkin carving was eliminated from the competition.

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The Food Network was unable to retrieve enough pumpkins due to the COVID-19 pandemic shortage.

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The show instead brought in “Ghost Adventures” paranormal investigator Zak Bagans to host.

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Each episode will ask artists to create a piece of food art based on an item Bagans has in his museum.

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Bagans owns a haunted museum in Las Vegas that contains 30 rooms of cursed artifacts.

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The creations will be judged by Shinmin Li, Aarti Sequeira, and Eddie Jackson.

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