Guy Fieri Suffers BRUTAL Injury After Ripping His Entire Quad In Half During "Flavortown Food Fight" Shoot
Source - Guy Fieri is wheelchair-bound after he “slipped down a set of steps” while filming “Flavortown Food Fight.”
The Food Network star explained to Fox News Digital on Monday that “one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold” during his fall — which tore his quad muscle “in half.”
When the 57-year-old was rushed to the hospital, the doctor told Fieri he hadn’t seen a comparable injury in the “biggest, thickest” part of the leg throughout his 20 years on the job.
“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,” Fieri noted.
The chef was ushered straight into surgery to ensure his muscles didn’t “recede.”
Damn, boy! That meat's falling right off the bone. Sorry - I had to. It's the first thing that came to mind and also literally what happened to Guy's quad. I don't know how much force it takes to sustain that kind of injury, but I imagine ripping your quadricep clean OFF OF YOUR FEMUR the long way has got to be brutal. The doctor who performed his emergency surgery said he's never seen anything like it in twenty years. Luckily, Guy seems to be in good spirits…
At the time, “everybody [was] in town” for the show and 125 people were on set and “ready to go.”
Fieri recalled, “We figured out how to pivot through it and to have some creative filming techniques. But it’s been a run.”
Since the accident, the restaurateur has been getting around with the help of crutches and a wheelchair.
“I have to stay off it,” Fieri told the outlet. “I can’t walk on it for eight weeks.”
At that point, the Emmy winner will get a cast and undergo rehabilitation — which he wants to start “as fast as possible.”
He did not specify when the injury occurred, but did confirm that “it sucked” and was a “damper.”
I also love how his main concern right after the injury was making sure Thanksgiving dinner was good to go…
His eldest son, Hunter, is taking the reins this Thanksgiving and hilariously texted Fieri that it’s his “time to shine.”
The “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” star said his youngest son, Ryder, and nephew Jules also “know how to cook.”
Fieri said, “It’s gonna be me quarterbacking from the wheelchair and telling them what to do. And we cook for about 40 people up here. So it’s going to be … an adventure.”
Poor Hunter better step up otherwise he's outta the will. Which, by the way, Guy already said he's going to do unless all of his children "get two degrees." "Oh no! I have to go party on my Dads dime twice before I get the rest of his money? What a shame!"
In all seriousness, I love Guy. And as someone who suffered a grizzly knee injury just last summer, I feel his pain. Fingers crossed he's able to make a speedy recovery. Flavortown needs him.