Celebrity chef and part-time Floridian Guy Fieri will be making use of Flavortown’s wheelchair accessibility for the near future after a dramatic accident resulted in emergency surgery.
Fieri, 57, told Fox News Digital in a new interview published Wednesday, Nov. 26, that he received a severe tear in his quad muscle when he “slipped down the steps.”
The Food Network star said he was in the middle of filming his new show, “Flavor Town Food Fight,” when the fall occurred.
“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,” he explained. “So, we figured out how to pivot through it and to have some creative filming techniques.”
What happened to Guy Fieri?
The self-proclaimed “Mayor of Flavortown” told Fox he slipped on some steps and twisted his leg.
“One foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold,” he said. “So, you know, it extended me out. I looked like I was probably doing the splits, but when my right leg compressed into itself, the giveaway point.”
He said his doctor claimed “in 20 years he hasn’t seen a tear in the biggest, thickest part of your quad in half,” the Food Network star continued. “Yeah, it sucked.”
Was Guy Fieri in surgery?
Fieri was rushed to surgery after the fall to make sure his muscles didn’t “recede,” he said.
“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 said.
USA TODAY has reached out to Fieri’s representatives for comment.
Is Guy Fieri in a wheelchair?
Fieri said he’s now “on crutches and in a wheelchair,” adding that the injury put a “damper” on his Thanksgiving plans.
“Now 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, it’s got to be an adventure.”
Fieri will have to go eight weeks with no weight on his leg and then into a cast befire rehabilitation begins.
Does Guy Fieri live in Florida?
The cheerful, spiky-haired chef has long-time connections to Florida.
He sold one of his Florida houses, a waterfront home in Lake Worth Beach, in January for $7 million. But he still has his waterfront mansion on Singer Island.
Fieri also has filmed multiple episodes of some of his cooking and dining shows in Florida, frequently headlines Miami’s annual South Beach Food and Wine Festival, and his son Hunter Fieri graduated in May 2025 with a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Miami.
Fieri’s “Chicken Guy” chicken tender restaurant has four locations in Florida cities including Disney Springs in Lake Buena Vista, Wesley Chapel, Ocala and Davie.
Contributing: Ashley Ferrer, USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Guy Fieri leg injury from fall after quad ‘exploded.’ What we know
Reporting by C. A. Bridges and Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida / Palm Beach Post
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