One of our sister papers has a really great takedown of the asshole star of the Food Network Guy Fieri. They talked to David Page, the man who produced 11 seasons of Diners, Drive-in’s and Dives, and got all the dirt. For example,
” ‘You have to protect Guy from all of his poop jokes,’ Page says. “Anytime any woman mentioned ‘cream,’ Guy went into a sexual riff. When cutting the show, you had to tell the editors to watch Guy’s eye line, because it’s always on breasts.” Fieri also needed protection from homosexuals, or at least advance warning. Early in the show’s run, Page got a phone call from Fieri, who’d just walked out of a restaurant in a huff. ”Guy had decided that the two men running the restaurant were life partners,” Page remembers. “He said, ‘You can’t send me to talk to gay people without warning! Those people weird me out!’” From then on, show researchers were required to note any indications of homosexuality detected during pre-interviews. (Fieri declined to comment for this story through his spokespeople.) “
