Guy Fiéri has a new perspective after a brutal injury leaves him in a wheelchair.
“It makes you appreciate being healthy. You look at people with disabilities and you realize we take a lot of things for granted,” Fieri, 58, said in an interview with Weekly Entertainment published on Tuesday January 27. “People on crutches and all that, you know, next time you see someone on crutches, maybe clear a little path. Open the door for them.”
The Food Network star was filming her next show Flavortown Food Fight in Northern California in November 2025, when he “slipped and went down to the end of the stairs” where his “right leg got stuck in the doorway,” he said. “So I’m kind of halfway through the splits coming down the stairs, about a three foot drop, and then he just took that leg and compressed it, broke my quad in the center of my leg in half. Literally in half.”
After being taken to hospital For emergency surgery, Fieri was told he would be in a wheelchair and on crutches for at least eight weeks, until the holiday season. The chef admitted that the incident made him appreciate life and his loved ones, including his wife. Lorme, my sons Huntingr, 29, and Ryder19 years old and nephew Jules26 years old – more than ever. (Fieri has been raising Jules since his sister died in 2011.)
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“I’ve always been like that as a person, but especially this thing of not being able to move around and looking at my wife, like, we’re coming back to the grocery store and she’s carrying the groceries,” Fieri told the outlet on Tuesday. “That’s just not how it works in my world. She says, ‘You’ve been doing it forever. I can do it.'”
He added that his kids really “stepped up” at Thanksgiving and Christmas, making the holidays go smoothly. “They were cooking,” he said. “There were a lot of positives to that. But now I’m better, now I’m back.”
Fieri supplied last an update on his health earlier this month, saying People that it was a “trying” holiday season for someone who is used to being as active as he is, but he was “trying to relax.”
At the time, Fieri said his doctors were strict about not rushing his recovery, lest his injury regress.
“My doctors all tell me, ‘We know you want to get out of this, but let’s not go back to where we were.’ And I’m like, “We’ll never go back to that!” “It’s the worst thing I’ve been through in the last 20 years,” he said, but noted that he would be “up, ready, healthy and rolling” by the time Super Bowl LX rolled around in February.
THE Dinners, drive-ins and diving The star already teased his appearance at the big game in Santa Clara, California, taking to social media earlier this week to give fans a sneak peek during a brand new makeover to celebrate his 58th birthday. Gone are the spiky blonde hair, colorful outfits and goatee, replaced by a more subdued brunette look, clean-shaven face and khaki pants.
“Hi! After so many years of celebrating my birthday as Guy, I thought this year I’d celebrate it as JustaGuy. Happy Birthday!” he said in a video of himself blowing out birthday candles. In the caption, Fieri added, “New year. New guy. New look.”
Guy Fieri talks about his “JustaGuy” transformation. “If you want to think big, go big,” Fieri, 58, told People in an interview published Monday, January 26. Fieri shocked his fans on January 22 when he revealed a brand new look for his 58th birthday via Instagram. The transformation included shaving his goatee […]
Fieri later revealed that the video was actually a teaser for his upcoming Super Bowl commercial for Bosch — and not an AI product as many fans suspected.
“They said, ‘Well, can you shave your goatee?’ And I said, ‘I’ll do it for that.’ This is such important publicity. It’s a really big problem,'” he told People in a Jan. 26 interview, noting that he sent a photo of his new vibe to his mother.
“She said, ‘Who is it?’ She said, “It sure looks a lot like you, but I know it’s not you.” “I said, ‘Mom, it’s me,'” he joked.
