Guy Fieri Is in a Wheelchair After He Slipped on Steps and Tore His Leg Muscle 'in Half': 'The Whole Quad Exploded'

Guy Fieri was hospitalized, and remains in a wheelchair as he recovers from surgery following a fall that tore his leg muscle “in half.”

The Food Network star, 57, was in the midst of filming his new series, Flavor Town Food Fight, when he “slipped down a set of steps and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold. So, you know, it extended me out. I looked like I was probably doing the splits,” he told Fox News Digital.

The accident caused a tear in his quad muscles, located at the front of the thigh. "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 star explained.

He shared that his doctor told him that, in 20 years of working, “he hasn't seen a tear [like this] in the biggest, thickest part of your quad in half. Yeah, it sucked." 

Fieri said he’s “on crutches and in a wheelchair,” while he recovers from the injury, which required emergency surgery. “I have to stay off it,” he told the outlet. “I can't walk on it for eight weeks.” He will then need physical therapy, he shared.

"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. [My doctor’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].'"

The chef said they’ve had to “pivot” to “some creative filming techniques,” while production on the new show continued. “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.”

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His injury will also impact Thanksgiving, but the chef thinks it’s “funny” how his kids took over the reins: “My son, Ryder, texted me from school [he attends San Diego State University] 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 [that] you have to do it.' "

Ryder will join Fieri's other son, Hunter, and nephew, Jules, in the kitchen, the chef shared: “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.”