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 mobile with the help of a wheelchair and crutches.
Fieri was filming his Food Network show, “Flavor Town Food Fight,” when he was injured.
Fieri explained what happened to Fox News Digital.
“(I) slipped down a set of steps and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold. So, you know, it extended me out,” he said. “I looked like I was probably doing the splits, but when my right leg compressed into itself the giveaway point and the doctor said he’s never seen — you know, in 20 years — he hasn’t seen a tear in the biggest, thickest part of your quad in half. Yeah, it sucked.”
Fieri was rushed into surgery so his muscles wouldn’t “recede.” This brought filming to a halt.
“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. So, we figured out how to pivot through it and to have some creative filming techniques. But it’s been a run, and now I’m up here at the ranch, where it’s always about hiking and outdoors, and you know, beautiful,” Fieri continued.
He also explained how extensive the injury was.
“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.
