Guy Fieri ‘Wheelchair-Bound’ After Gruesome Accident

Food Network king Guy Fieri revealed that he is laid up in a wheelchair after a nasty spill sent him straight into emergency surgery, tearing his quad muscle “in half.”

“[I] slipped down a set of steps and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold,” Fieri said. “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 said doctors rushed him into surgery so the muscle wouldn’t “recede,” adding the damage wasn’t in the usual spot.

“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,” he said to Fox News.

The timing couldn’t have been worse. Fieri was in the middle of filming his new series, “Flavor Town Food Fight,” with chefs, crew and more than a hundred people already on set.

“So, right in the middle of filming that and 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,” he said. “So, we figured out how to pivot through it and to have some creative filming techniques. 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,” he added, calling the injury a “damper.”

The recovery will sideline him for eight weeks, which means this year’s Thanksgiving feast is getting a major shake-up.

“Oh, it’s going to affect it because I’m on crutches and in a wheelchair. I mean, I have to stay off it and the whole thing. I can’t walk on it for eight weeks,” he said. Fieri’s son Ryder has already stepped up. “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 he’s handing holiday duty to his sons Hunter and Ryder, plus his nephew Jules.

“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,” he said. “And we cook for about 40 people up here. So it’s going to be, it’s got to be an adventure.”

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