Guy Fieri enthusiastically agrees to officiate Kristen Stewart’s wedding
The Spencer star expressed her desire for "that sweet, sweet spikey-headed man" to head up the ceremony while talking to Howard Stern this week
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Today, in “sentences we have written, but do not yet fully understand” news: Guy Fieri has agreed—on national TV—to officiate Kristen Stewart’s upcoming wedding.
Specifically, the Diners, Drive-Ins, And Dives host popped in to a broadcast of NBC’s TODAY this morning, surprising Stewart with his willingness to officiate her upcoming nuptials with screenwriter Dylan Meyer. That, in turn, comes from a recent Howard Stern interview, in which the Spencer star responded to a question about who she might want to have run the ceremony by naming the frosted-haired Donkey Sauce magnate.
(Please consider this your regular reminder that Guy Fieri is, by all accounts, extremely nice, and that totally neutral comments about the aesthetics of both his personal appearance and the food he effusively praises for a living do not constitute “making fun of Guy Fieri.” Nobody’s making fun of Guy Fieri here, mostly.)
And while that choice might seem random, Stewart noted that she was inspired by having heard that Fieri has made a small hobby of officiating gay weddings. Specifically, she was presumably inspired by an event organized by celebrity chef Art Smith in 2015, which saw Fieri officiate a mass wedding of 101 same-sex couples. At the time, Fieri noted that he participated in the event at least in part to honor his sister Morgan, who was a lesbian, and who died before gay marriage was legalized in the United States.
Beyond all that, Stewart does seem to be genuinely delighted by Fieri as, like, a concept. In the original Stern interview, she stated that, “the idea of that man—that sweet, sweet spikey-headed man—coming to our wedding and officiating it, it just makes me laugh so much.” And when Hoda Kotb asked Stewart if she was genuine about her desire about having him conduct the wedding, her answer was an equally fulsome: “Absolutely! Do you know where he lives? What’s his address? Does he live in L.A.? We should talk about this.”
At which point, Fieri popped on a TODAY screen—like some kind of party-shirt-cursed genie—with a pre-taped message, and granted Stewart’s wish. “Hey Kristen, Guy Fieri here, and I heard through the Flavortown grapevine that you are looking for a sweet spikey-haired officiant for your wedding. I’m all in!”
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STOP MAKING FUN OF GUY FIERI!
Can we still make fun of his terrible restaurant in Times Square? The NYT review of it almost a decade ago is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
It closed a while ago so that would be like beating a dead horse.
I hadn’t heard. What a shock. In other news, Times Square recently got a Margaritaville, although not in the same location as Fieri’s.
Dead horse was definitely part of the cuisine there.
Or beating the main course. Ba dum ting!
Is that how donkey sauce is made?
No, they import that from Tijuana.
That’s tonight’s special!
Beating a dead horse? More like milking a dead donkey for its sauce.
Why marry the donkey when you can get the sauce for free?
Didn’t they serve dead horse at that place?
It wasn’t his restaurant, he just licensed out his name.
Well in that case, he has nothing to do with it then.
Yes. Yes, we can:
I don’t know about the times Square restaurant but my wife made me go to his Las Vegas restaurant and It was actually delicious. I was fully expecting it to be shitty frozen bar food but I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.
“I was fully expecting it to be shitty frozen bar food but I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.”
Because THAT is how most celebrity chefs become famous, right? Because they make shitty frozen bar food.
Jesus, some people are so fucking stupid.
I have a special fondness of well-written excoriations of terrible restaurants, and that is a fine example.
What a lovely Guy!
ooh, what a lovely tea party!
Eek! A disgusting spider!
My mom says I’m a handsome spider.
Well, like the old song says, Your Mother Should Know!
Jah, Deine Mutter sollte es wissen!
Du sagst es.
I feel like this was too easy to misunderstand. I wasn’t trying to be mean. I was trying to be funny. Cut me some slack, I’m German!
How can a man be a national treasure and single-handedly responsible for more cardiac arrests than deep fried Wisconsin cheddar cheese curds simultaneously?!?!?I absolutely love this guy.
This is a nation of freedom and excess. What other country can you die from eating deep fried butter with chocolate drizzle??!?! National Treasure
Look deeper.
He’s a misogynistic, homophobic dick in real life.
National treasure? To whom exactly?
As long as he’s not catering it.
I thought that was Kate McKinnon for a sec.
You thought Guy Fieri was Kate McKinnon‽
She plays wacky characters!
Yes?
She seems cool, but she is not “boss.”
Do I make Springsteen or Tony Danza joke?! AAARRGGGHHH!
Comedy feedback loop!
*Head explodes*
I thought it was an angry cursed Chia pet brought to hideous life by thinking about it.
(like Ghostbusters)
We still don’t know for sure that he’s not.
Man I hope MBMBAM finds a way to bring this up on the podcast.
I mean it is munch squad adjacent
Does no one else remember his homophobic scandle? Seems like an odd choice. Must be nice to be a lesbian and not a gay man. 🙁 https://www.mashed.com/369336/controversial-things-everyone-ignores-about-guy-fieri/
Major props to Kristen Stewart for getting an immortal demon to officiate her wedding.
I still don’t like him
If the worst thing I can say about the guy is that he looks like the worst part of year-2000 rock music threw up on itself, he would seem to be a very ok fellow. He’s done some incredible deeds.
I will never not be amused by the description of Fieri as what would happen if Sammy Hagar had been really into ranch dressing instead of tequila.
Weirdly enough, they are in fact business partners.https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/11/02/guy-fieri-sammy-hagar-tequila-santo-cabo/
Although Sammy actually has talent, and is a good cook as well.
He has a ranch in Lake County (north of Napa, east of Mendocino) and has been extremely generous to various local charities. Much of that is pretty low key, he’s not sending out press releases to tout his charity, he just does it. He is also a fixture at various evacuee sites during fire season, cooking meals for evacuees and fire crews.
As I’ve posted several times before, Guy Fieri is a really, really good guy. And a hack. It can be two things.
Nah, the image is well cultivated. The man himself is a dick.
“And a hack.”
What’s the hack part? Is that where he travels the country shining a huge spotlight on small, locally-owned businesses, thereby giving them a huge bump in business? Or is it that he set up a fund at the very beginning of the pandemic to support the industry he loves? Or is it that he’s a true LGBTQ ally when most people are just doing shitty performative support?
But hey, you were right on one subject though: it *CAN* be two things, like how you’re a rotting cunt AND a festering asshole.
His schtick is just not my thing, he’s a human cheeto, but he seems like a decent dude.
Good Guy, Guy Fieri.
You don’t know him, personally, obviously.
Smartass irony culture welcoming Fieri sincerely and acknowledging him as a genuine person has been one of the sweetest stories of the last few years. It does make me sad for Richard Simmons, though. I feel that he is due for a reappraisal as a righteous charitable individual who didn’t deserve all those decades of mockery and contempt. Sometimes idiosyncratic people get famous and we focus on how odd they are instead of how good they are. It’s a shame and especially in these times we need to recognize how they make life better for the average person. That’s all
I think Guy Fieri is a genuinely good dude with some questionable taste. I think Kristen Stewart seems like a nice person as well. My view of both is generally positive. So why am I left feeling…uneasy…by this announcement?
“Guy had decided that the two men running
the restaurant were life partners,” (ex-producer David) Page remembers. “He said, ‘You can’t
send me to talk to gay people without warning! Those people weird me
out!’”https://www.huffpost.com/entry/guy-fieri-homophobia_n_1020736
The crazy thing is he’s a bro, who yells “nice tits” at random people’s girlfriends. Ask me how I know.
as if he could agree any other way.
You do you girl but I’m warning you, he’ll make the eggs too hot.
I don’t know what that means, but does it have something to do with how much Guy famously hates eggs?
And Hoda Kotb, who’s name looks like an unfortunate Scrabble hand.