Guy Fieri is giving an update on his health after a recent hospitalization left him in a wheelchair.
“I’m doing better. It was definitely a trying holiday, but you know what, you get some real appreciation for having the ability to just get up and walk around and do everything you used to,” Fieri, 57, told People in an interview published on Wednesday, January 14. “I’m a big CrossFit and hiking guy, so eight weeks of no hiking has driven me kind of crazy. But I’m looking forward to it, trying to take it easy.”
The Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives 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 down a set of steps and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold,” the chef told Fox News Digital at the time. “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.”
While Fieri said a tear in someone’s quad usually happens at the tendon or “the tendon tears off the bone,” his injury was “right in the center” of the muscle, which “exploded.”
After being admitted to the hospital, Fieri was immediately taken into surgery to make sure his muscle didn’t “recede.” He was later told he’d be in a wheelchair and on crutches throughout the holiday season.
“It’s going to affect it because I’m on crutches and in a wheelchair,” he explained to Fox at the time. “I mean, I have to stay off it and the whole thing. I can’t walk on it for eight weeks.”
Two months later, Fieri is ready to get up and back on his feet — but his doctors have warned him to take it easy so he doesn’t regress.
“My doctors are all like, ‘We know you want to get after it, but let’s not go back to where we were.’ And I’m like, ‘We are never going back to that!’ That was the worst thing I’ve been through in the last 20 years,” he told People on Wednesday before promising he’ll be “up and ready and healthy and rolling” by the time Super Bowl LX comes in February.
Fieri’s two sons, Hunter, 29, and nephew Jules, 26, will join him in Santa Clara for the big event to assist with the Flavortown Tailgate. The pair — as well as Fieri’s younger son, Ryder, 19 — got a jump start with their cooking when they took over Thanksgiving duties for Fieri this year. (Fieri shares Hunter and Ryder with wife Lori, and has raised Jules since his sister’s death in 2011.)
The Food Network star told Fox News Digital before the holiday that Ryder texted him post-surgery from college with the assumption he’d have to put his 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 at school, it was going to be my time to shine,” Fieri recalled. “And I said, ‘I am so happy you’re asking me about this versus me telling you [that] you have to do it.’”
