EX BURNS BERTINELLI FOR $50K/MO SUPPORT!

Hassles cooking star for dough so he can party & take vacations

FOOD Network cook and former sitcom star Valerie Bertinelli has been clobbered with a demand by estranged hubby Tom Vitale that she supports him to the tune of more than $50,000 a month!

In court papers, Vitale, 60, who claims to be a financial planner, cries poor, saying he’s forced to work for $16 an hour, 30 hours a week at a Malibu post office earning just $480 per week.

Meanwhile, he claims his estranged 62-year-old wife, who starred in hit sitcoms One Day at a Time in the ’70s and ’80s and Hot in Cleveland from 2010 to 2015 and currently hosts Valerie’s Home Cooking, rakes in a whopping $179,346 each month!