Guy Fieri Injured as Quad Muscle ‘Explodes’

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri is sidelined this Thanksgiving after he was injured filming one of his shows. The chef had emergency surgery after he missed a set of steps and tearing his quad muscle in half. He is now only…

Sandra RhodesNov 27, 20253 min read

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“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.

Fieri will be off his feet for about eight weeks, changing his Thanksgiving plans as his sons and nephew plan to cook now.

“Oh, it’s going to affect it because I’m on crutches and in a wheelchair. I mean, I have to stay off it and the whole thing. I can’t walk on it for eight weeks. So it was funny. My son, Ryder, texted me from school and he said, ‘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.’ And I said, ‘I am so happy you’re asking me about this versus me telling you, you have to do it,’” Fieri said.

“So, I got my three boys, Hunter, Ryder and Jules, and they all know how to cook. And 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 said.