{"id":414834,"date":"2025-11-30T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T10:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/414834\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T10:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T10:07:16","slug":"guy-fieri-in-wheelchair-for-8-weeks-following-emergency-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/414834\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Fieri in wheelchair for 8 weeks following emergency surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Fieri is in a wheelchair and using crutches after a slip down some steps sent him to the emergency room.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview Monday with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/guy-fieri-says-quad-exploded-mid-shoot-keeping-him-wheelchair-8-weeks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News Digital<\/a>, the Sonoma County celebrity chef explained how he \u201cexploded\u201d his quad muscle in a fall, requiring emergency surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it sucked,\u201d Fieri said in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox News Digital, the Food Network star said he was filming his new show, \u201cFlavor Town Food Fight,\u201d when the slip down steps happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI looked like I was probably doing the splits,\u201d Fieri told Fox News Digital. \u201cThe doctor said he\u2019s never seen \u2014 you know, in 20 years \u2014 he hasn\u2019t seen a tear in the biggest, thickest part of your quad in half\u2026This was right in the center of the whole quad muscle and it exploded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to interrupting the shoot, Fieri told the outlet that being laid up impacted his Thanksgiving plans, forcing sons Hunter and Ryder and nephew Jules to cook the meal on the family ranch with Fieri \u201cquarterbacking from the wheelchair and telling them what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son, Ryder, texted me from school and he said, \u2018Well, I guess all the training you\u2019ve given me and all the cooking I\u2019ve been doing while I was at school, it was going to be my time to shine.\u2019 And I said, \u2018I am so happy you\u2019re asking me about this versus me telling you, you have to do it,&#8217;\u201d Fieri told the website.<\/p>\n<p>Fieri added that he has been ordered by doctors to keep weight off the leg for eight weeks, and that he will be in a cast and will rehab his quad following that, according to the website.<\/p>\n<p>View a clip from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/guy-fieri-says-quad-exploded-mid-shoot-keeping-him-wheelchair-8-weeks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the video interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guy Fieri is in a wheelchair and using crutches after a slip down some steps sent him to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":414835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[16949,6301,23593,210,1141,1142,47641,67,132,68,102317],"class_list":{"0":"post-414834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-fall","9":"tag-fox-news-digital","10":"tag-guy-fieri","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-surgery","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wheelchair"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115638098392580991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}