The Food Network Star Says His Quad “Exploded”
A significant part of Guy Fieri’s life for the past two decades has been driving and walking into unique eateries across the country on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, and a host of other television programs.
However, the 57-year-old Food Network star may need a little help getting around for the next few weeks.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Fieri shared that he is presently in a wheelchair and utilizing crutches, as needed, as he recovers from a serious fall that required emergency surgery.
Detailing how he fell down a flight of stairs while filming for his show Flavor Town Food Fight, Fieri said that one of his feet got caught on the threshold of a door, putting him in a splits-like position.
“My right leg compressed into itself,” Fieri said, adding, “You normally tear that muscle at your tendon or the tendon tears off the bone, but this was right in the center of the whole quad muscle and it exploded.”
Of this situation, he added, “It sucked.”
Watch Guy Fieri speak about his injury, here:
Speaking with Fox News, he described how he wound up in surgery, saying, “So, right in the middle of filming that and we’ve got everybody in town and all the chefs there and 125 people on set – and everybody’s ready to go – and I’m in surgery.”
Upon returning to set, he said that he and the Food Network team “figured out how to pivot through it and to have some creative filming techniques.”
But What About His Family’s Thanksgiving Dinner?
With this injury, which he said has been a “damper” and will keep him off his feet for eight weeks, Fieri is with his family at their ranch, but he lamented that he’s unable to partake in the typical hiking and outdoor activities.
However, with Thanksgiving being tomorrow, November 27, he said that all hope is not lost, as both of his sons, Hunter and Ryder; as well as his nephew, Jules, know how to cook.
When his family learned he wouldn’t be able to walk for eight weeks, Fieri said that his son Ryder texted him, saying, “Well, I guess all the training you’ve given me and all the cooking I’ve been doing while I was at school, it was going to be my time to shine.”
Fieri said he responded: “I am so happy you’re asking me about this versus me telling you, you have to do it.”
For their annual Thanksgiving meal, he said that they typically cook for about 40 people, so he admitted that the experience of being less mobile than he’s accustomed to for the holiday is going “to be an adventure.”
Read an assortment of holiday recipes prepared by Guy Fieri, here.
Take a look back at one of Guy Fieri’s Thanksgiving recipes, called the “Mean Green Turkey Machine,” here:
For a laugh, take a look at Saturday Night Live‘s Thanksgiving parody of Guy Fieri on Weekend Update, here:
