Guy Fieri says his leg 'exploded' after he fell down stairs on set, is now in wheelchair

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri won't be cooking the Thanksgiving feast for his family and friends this year, but he'll be supervising the preparations — from a wheelchair

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri won't be cooking the Thanksgiving feast for his family and friends this year, but he'll be supervising the preparations — from a wheelchair.

The spiky-haired Food Network star was filming his new show, “Flavor Town Food Fight,” earlier this month when he fell down some stairs and tore a quad muscle on his right leg in half.

"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,” Fieri said in an interview with Fox News.

Fieri said he underwent emergency surgery on his injured leg and has to be off his feet until he mends. "I can't walk on it for eight weeks," he said.

So Fieri, famous for his "Welcome to Flavortown" slogan, is handing over the cooking reins to his sons Hunter and Ryder, and his nephew Jules, while he's in Recoverytown.