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For anyone who wants to keep up on what The Guy has goin' on ....






"The app allows you to get details on the closest restaurants featured on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. You can search by GPS or by zip code. Details about each restaurant include the name, distance, phone number, address, website, Youtube video and which episode they were featured on. You can call the restaurant from the details screen. You can also see a map of where the restaurant is located.




"My biggest inspiration, the best role model this Guy could ever hope for…it’s my dad, hands down."
Actually, I don't think it was from Guy, at least not directly. Guy Fieri has hired Zenergy Works SEO (website), and I think several recent tweets are coming from them."I've got a good sense of humor and could see being involved in a sitcom or a movie." He confesses that NBC didn't approach him about broadening his professional horizons by hosting a game show.I'm not sure if I see Guy in a sitcom, but I sure can see him doing a voice for a Pixar film, eh? Haha!
"My agent," he says, "asked what were other things I might like to do that I wasn't doing and I thought, ‘Well, I'm a game show fan. I love the way the hosts can interact with contestants.’ And I said, 'I'd love to host a prime time game show.' I didn't think anyone would take me seriously. But not only did they, they designed a show I feel I was born to do. It's perfect for me."
Q. Very cool. So how did you - how did the (producers of the show) find you?On a programming note, we have two All New episodes of Minute to Win It this week:
Guy Fieri: ... You know what? It was actually a collaboration between our Executive Producer, you know, Craig Plestis, and Jason Hodes from William Morris Endeavor.
Two had met two years ago in I believe it was France. There was a conference that was going on there. And they just started to have this, you know, discussion about, you know, I’ve got this new guy that’s on the Food Network. His name is Guy Fieri....
And that was it. I remember Jason telling me he had met this guy. And I bet you someday we’ll have some, you know, some program. Well as everybody knows in this business there’s a lot of ideas and designs and hopes and wishes and dreams.
And the fact that this has really come to, you know, fruition that it’s just, you know, what do you say? I’m amazed. And I appreciate the opportunity because I am a chef. And a restaurant owner, a dad. And I do have other shows. You know, I’ve got other things going on.
And to be chosen to do this, you couldn’t - I’ll just tell it to you this way. You couldn’t have designed a game ever that was going to be more fitting to me and my style than this.
And that’s not just a cliché statement. I mean I don’t know what you could have called the game. But this right here, this is how - this is what - you know this is how - this is me.
The dynamic Fieri assures us the event will not be recorded for the cameras, that "This is something that has nothing to do with television." He adds, "My 13-year-old son, Hunter, is going to cook with me. He's done so before, on some of my 'For the White House menu, Guy Fieri said he'd make "a little Italian and something creative -- a BLT sandwich made with duck." Would that be a DBLT? I'd trade that for a filibuster any day.Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives' Food Network show. [Er, that would be Guy's Big Bite and Guy Off the Hook. ~D] I have strong feelings about educating children through the empowerment of cooking. My son Ryder wants to cook with me, too, but he's only 4 so we'll wait a bit."
Guy Fieri has long supported young people learning how to cook and to consider culinary arts has a hobby at least, or as a profession. He has been actively involved in the National ProStart program, with a recent television special, Top of the Class, and by hiring high school culinary students to help cook, prep and serve during the Guy Fieri Road Show.
For the third year in a row, Guy was celebrity chef at Palapa Joe’s restaurant in La Manzanilla. His January 26, 2010 fund-raising dinner featured "Asian cuisine that sated and delighted diners lucky enough to get a reservation," according to the Guadalajara Reporter.
Phew...Guy et al did a great job today....think the final tally was 80 mas o menos. A large contribution is on the way to the kindergarten kitchen project. - Palapa Joe's
All of Guy Fieri's family was in on the act. Guy's son, Hunter, and his father, Jim Ferry, worked in the kitchen and in the bar, and Guy's mother, Penny Ferry, sold raffle tickets for a copy of More Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and an autographed Ergo Chef’s knife.





