Guy Fieri Hospitalized, Wheelchair-Bound After On-Set Accident

Guy Fieri was recently 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,” Fieri, 57, told Fox News Digital on Monday, November 24. “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 continued, “You normally tear that muscle at your tendon or the tendon tears off the bone, but this was right in the center of the whole quad muscle and it exploded.”

The Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives host said that, once he arrived at the hospital after his fall, he was immediately taken into surgery to make sure his muscles didn’t “recede.”

Fieri added that he was “right in the middle” of filming Flavortown Food Fight when the accident happened.

“We’ve got everybody 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 figured out how to pivot through it and to have some creative filming techniques,” he said. “But it’s been a run, and now I’m up here at the ranch, where it’s always about hiking and outdoors, and you know, beautiful.”

Fieri lamented that his injury has been a “damper” because it will affect his life for several weeks — including Thanksgiving.

“Oh, it’s going to affect it because I’m on crutches and in a wheelchair,” he continued. “I mean, I have to stay off it and the whole thing. I can’t walk on it for eight weeks. So it was funny. My son, Ryder, texted me from school and 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.’ And I said, ‘I am so happy you’re asking me about this versus me telling you, you have to do it.’”

Fieri said that his and wife Lori Fieri’s two sons, Hunter, 29, and Ryder, 19, will take over the cooking for the holiday, as well as his nephew Jules, 25.

“So, I got my three boys, Hunter, Ryder and Jules, and they all know how to cook. And now it’s gonna be me quarterbacking from the wheelchair and telling them what to do. And we cook for about 40 people up here. So it’s going to be, it’s got to be an adventure,” he joked.

Fieri also revealed what his recovery process will look like: “Eight weeks of no weight on it, crutches and a cast and then the rehab.”

“Which to me — I want to get after it as fast as possible. He’s like, ‘You know as much as you want to get back to being Guy, you’re going to really have to go through [it],” Fieri recalled his doctor telling him.