Food Network’s biggest star has suffered a nasty on-set injury.
Guy Fieri, the host of flagship shows like Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Guys’ Grocery Games and Tournament of Champions revealed details of a nasty fall this week.
He will be taking it easy on Thanksgiving and beyond, after suffering the on-set accident that’s left him in a wheelchair and on crutches.
“[I] slipped down a set of steps and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold,” the Food Network star told Fox News Digital on Monday.
“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, 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, 57, required immediate surgery for the gruesome injury in which the center of his quad essentially exploded, he said.
He is now using a wheelchair and crutches for the foreseeable future, which isn’t ideal since the injury happened while he was filming a new show.
The show will go on, Fieri said, thanks to some creative filming techniques. In the meantime, the former Next Food Network Star is in a cast, undergoing rehab and taking it easy for the next weeks.
As for Thanksgiving dinner? His sons Ryder, 19, and Hunter, 29, are taking the lead.
Fieri told Fox he’ll be “quarterbacking from the wheelchair” and “telling them what to do.”
