Celebrity chef and businessman Guy Fieri speaks at the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony for Sammy Hagar (not in photo) in Hollywood, California, on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
Guy Fieri’s holiday season looked a little different due to the November fall that sent him to the emergency room and forced him into a wheelchair, as he recounted during an recent appearance on a podcast.
The Sonoma County celebrity chef and Food Network star told San Diego Magazine’s “Happy Half Hour” podcast host Troy Johnson that he missed his Guy Fieri Foundation’s annual Thanksgiving meal giveaway due to the injury he suffered while filming his new show, “Flavor Town Food Fight,” the U.S. Sun reported Monday.
In November, Fieri told Fox News Digital that he “exploded” his quad muscle in a fall down steps during taping of the show, which required emergency surgery.
In the nearly hourlong podcast, released Dec. 18, Fieri also talked to Johnson about the evolution of his popular Food Network shows like “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” and “Guy’s Grocery Games,” where Johnson — a noted food writer — frequently appears as a judge, as well as the growth of his Flavortown brand and his Santo Tequila brand, which Fieri co-founded in 2019 with former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar.
Fieri also spoke to Johnson about his Guy Fieri Foundation, which he called “the greatest achievement I’ve ever had in my career.”
Fieri described the foundation’s work preparing free ready-to-heat meals for needy families on Thanksgiving and how the foundation regularly travels to disasters to feed emergency responders. He also said the foundation “will live on in perpetuity.”
“I’ll be dead, and this foundation will have its own money, it’s own trajectory,” Fieri told Johnson.
“You’re never going to die, by the way,” Johnson interrupted.
“Exactly,” Fieri responded. “I’ll be back in the crutches like I am now!”
Watch the full conversation below:
Originally published at Charles Swanson