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Guy Fieri was taken to emergency surgery after missing a step and tearing his quad muscle in half.
During an interview with Fox News Digital, the Food Network star revealed that he is currently in a wheelchair and using crutches.
,[I] Slipped down some stairs, one foot went forward and the other foot got stuck on the threshold. So, you know, it kept me going. I felt like I was probably doing splits, but when my right leg pressed itself into the giveaway point and the doctor said he had never seen – you know, in 20 years – he had never seen a single tear in the biggest, thickest part of half of your quad. Yeah, it sucks,” Fieri said.
Guy Fieri skipped down a set of stairs and his quad muscle “exploded.” (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for the Tyler Robinson Foundation)
He said he was taken to surgery after the fall to ensure his muscles did not “regress”.
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“You normally tear that muscle into your tendon or the tendon tears the bone, but this was right in the middle of the entire quad muscle and it tore,” Fieri said.
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The chef reported that he was in the middle of shooting his new show, “Flavor Town Food Fight”, when he fell and had to undergo surgery.
“So, right in the middle of filming and we had all the people 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 thought about how to move through it and use some creative filming techniques. But it’s been a race, and now I’m here at the farm, where it’s always about hiking and the outdoors, and, you know, beautiful,” Fieri said, explaining his injury. Has been an “obstacle”.
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“You normally tear that muscle into your tendon or the tendon tears the bone, but this was right in the middle of the entire quad muscle and it tore.”
Fieri predicted that his injury, which will sideline him from his activities for eight weeks, will absolutely impact this year’s Thanksgiving meal.
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“Oh, it’s going to impact it because I’m on crutches and in a wheelchair. I mean, I have to be away from it and the whole thing. I can’t walk on it for eight weeks. So that was fun. My son, Ryder, messaged me from school and he was like, ‘Okay, I think with the training you’ve put me through and the food I’ve been cooking while I’m at school, it’s going to be my time to shine.’ And I said, ‘I’m so glad you’re asking me about it even though I’m telling you you have to do it,'” Fieri said.
Guy Fieri will be in a wheelchair for eight weeks. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images)
The professional chef plans to pass the torch for this holiday to his two sons, Hunter and Ryder, and his nephew Jules.
“So, I have my three boys, Hunter, Ryder and Jules, and they all know how to cook. And now I have to quarterback from a wheelchair and tell them what to do. And we cook for about 40 people here. So it’s going to be, it’s going to be an adventure,” Fieri said.
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Fieri is in a long-term recovery. After eight weeks of no weight on his leg, he will have to go in a cast and then rehab his quad.
Fieri will have to be put in a cast and then rehabilitate his leg after being sidelined for eight weeks. (Brandon Todd/NBAE via Getty Images)
“No weight on it for eight weeks, crutches and a cast and then rehab, which for me – I want to get through it as quickly as possible. He’s like, ‘You can learn as much as you want, get back to being Guy, you really have to go through it. [it],
“I haven’t busted anything. I mean, I broke it all as a kid. I broke my foot, broke my knee, broke my wrist, broke my sternum, my ribs, my tailbone. I mean, you know, you name it, I broke it. But I stopped doing that – you know, I’ve dealt with that kind of behavior a long time ago,” Fieri said.
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