Guy Fieri is reporting on his health after a recent hospitalization left him in a wheelchair.
“I’m better. It was definitely a tough holiday, but you know what, you have a real appreciation for being able to get up and walk around and do everything you used to,” Fieri, 57, said. people in an interview published on Wednesday, January 14. “I’m a big CrossFit and hiking guy, so eight weeks without walking has driven me a little crazy. But I’m looking forward to it, trying to take it easy.”
The Money, Drive-Ins and Divas The host revealed in November 2025 that he has been rushed into emergency surgery after an accident on the set of his new show, Flavortown Food Fight.
“I slipped on some steps and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold,” the chef said. Fox News Digital at that time. “So, you know, he stretched me out. It looked like he was probably doing the splits, but when my right leg compressed in on itself, the delivery point…and the doctor said he’s never, you know, in 20 years, seen a tear in the biggest, thickest part of your quad in half. Yeah, it sucked.”
Although Fieri said a tear in someone’s quad usually happens in the tendon or “the tendon tears the bone,” his injury was “right in the center” of the muscle, which “exploded.”
After being admitted to the hospital, Fieri immediately underwent surgery to ensure that his muscle did not “regress”. She was later told she would be in a wheelchair and on crutches for the entire holiday season.
“It’s going to affect him because I’m on crutches and in a wheelchair,” he explained. fox at that time. “I mean, I have to stay out and everything. I can’t walk in it for eight weeks.”
Two months later, Fieri is ready to get back up and on his feet, but his doctors have warned him to take it easy so he doesn’t regress.
“All my doctors are like, ‘We know you want to keep going, but we’re not going back to where we were.’ And I’m like, ‘We’re never going back!’ This was the worst thing I’ve experienced in the last 20 years,” he said people Wednesday before promising he’ll be “ready and ready and healthy and rolling” at the moment Super Bowl LX is coming in February.
Fieri’s two sons, hunter29 and nephew Jules26, will join him in Santa Clara for the big event to help with the Flavortown tailgate. The couple, as well as Fieri’s young son, Ryder19: Started with her kitchen when they took over Thanksgiving duties for Fieri this year. (Fieri shares Hunter and Ryder with his wife Loriand has raised Jules since her sister’s death in 2011.)
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The Food Network said the star Fox News Digital before the holidays, Ryder sent her a post-surgery text message from college with the assumption that she should put her chef skills to the test.
“He said, ‘Well, I guess all the training you’ve given me and all the cooking I’ve been doing while I was in school, it would be my time to shine,'” Fieri recalled. “And I said, ‘I’m so glad you’re asking me about this instead of telling you (that) you have to do it.’