Buddy Valastro is known as the Cake Boss behind Carlo's Bakery, but he learned everything he knows from the original boss of the now nationwide bakeshop: his father. Bartolo Valastro, AKA Buddy Sr., bought the Hoboken, New Jersey, business from Carlo Guastaferro around 1960, 50 years after its original opening, according to Insider.

"My father was a god. My father Buddy Sr. was this magnificent baker who everybody looked up to and respected," Valastro said in the first episode of "Cake Boss." "Words cannot explain what a good father he was," he added.