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In tonight's episode of Hotel Impossible (10 pm eastern & Pacific on the Travel Channel), host Anthony Melchiorri will compete in the Nugget Rib Eating Championship held in Sparks, NV in August. Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie and Juan Rodriguez appear in a screen capture..

Hungry documentary website & film credits

The documentary “Hungry” will debut in two weeks at DOC NYC. A website for the film has been set up at http://www.hungrythefilm.com/.

The cast includes
Takeru Kobayashi, Pat Bertoletti, Dave Goldstein, Stephanie Torres, Joe LaRue, Brad Sciullo, Mike DeVito, Curtis Sliwa, Gersh Kuntzman, Sam Barclay, Crazy Legs Conti, Brian Subich, Pete Czerwinski, Jonathan Squibb and Tony Hawk. Brian Seiken is credited for his interview with Brad Sciullo.

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Takeru Kobayashi will appear on the Canadian sports channel TSN today at 5 pm eastern.He ate 4 hot dogs in 30 seconds.
A fake trailer video (may not be safe for work) has been produced for "Feed to Kill", a horror movie set in the world of French competitive eating. Project blog | facebook (via Dread Central)
Good Day Sacramento is seeking three women to compete in an on-air eating contest at Rivers Edge Cafe on Sunday.
NYCastings has a request for "sexy and cute types to portray girls in a hotdog eating contest" to be filmed in New York City tomorrow for an episode of the new series "Deadbeat".
Pat Bertoletti will attempt the egg yolk challenge on Friday's episode of the Steve Harvey Show (via OregonLive) update Oct 25 Pat's segment can be viewed online
Molly Schuyler appeared on WOWT to eat donuts from WOWT at Uptown Bakery in Bellevue, NE.
The competitive eating documentary "Hungry" will debut at DOC NYC on November 15 at 11:59 pm as part of its Midnight Docs series. Takeru Kobayashi is expected to attend the screening. A facebook page for the movie has been set up at facebook.com/Hungrythemovie (via IndieWire)
Tomorrow's episode of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central will feature a video of a reversal experienced by a diner attempting a spicy sushi challenge. update The whole entire competitive eating segment can be viewed online. Joey Chestnut appears in the segment.
A new trailer for the "Hungry" competitive eating documentary focusing on Takeru Kobayashi and Brad Sciullo is available on youtube. The caption lists a release date this fall.
Halftime promotion Little Arlene, billed as the "hot dog queen" made a brief appearance in "Free Spirits", a documentary about the St. Louis Spirits of the ABA that debuted tonight on ESPN. According to a 1986 LA Times article, she ate 23 hot dogs, 22 large slices of pizza and 16 large Cokes during a Philadelphia 76ers game.
The mini-documentary about Miki Sudo and Juan Rodriguez competing in the Nugget Rib Eating Championship in Sparks, NV is now available on the VICE.com youtube channel.
Dave "US Male" Goldstein's facebook fan page has the poster for the competitive eating documentary Hungry. Likenesses of Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertolett appear in the image and the slogan is "The battle for competitive eating will not be televised."
Former IFOCE/MLE member Kevin Carr has an article for Film School Rejects about eating more than 50 eggs in less than one hour.
A woman won a burrito eating contest held during a release party for Grand Theft Auto V in Sydney. (picture)
WXYZ.com has an article about DeSean Whipple, who defended his coney eating title at American Coney in Detroit on Thursday and will appear on the game show Let's Ask America tomorrow.
In the "Lactose Intolerant" episode of Mystery Diners, the undercover customers attempt to determine why the grilled cheese sandwich at Cheesie's Pub & Grub in Chicago had such a high success rate. The episode will be televised on the Food Network on September 13, 14 and 15.
Splitsider has an interview with comedian Barry Rothbart, co-producer of the upcoming competitive eating documentary Hungry. He makes the following claim about his film: "We actually started digging so deep that the league tried to sabotage our project on several occasions. It was like a spy movie." A release date is not provided.
The Australian boy band Five Seconds of Summer attempted the 28 inch pizza challenge at Russo's New York Pizzeria in Houston during their US tour.
Joey Chestnut will appear tonight on E! News at 7 and 11:30 to promote tomorrow's gyoza contest. Matt Stonie has uploaded a video of his training for that event.
Ken Douglas appeared on Good Day Sacramento this morning to attempt the burger challenge at Chuck's Place Sports Cafe in Manteca, CA (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
In an outtake video from ESPN's Around the Horn, Pablo Torres talks about his attempt at the Fifth Third burger challenge available at West Michigan Whitecaps games.
Pixelate, a Guitar-Hero-style eating game where players compete to eat the most food in the correct order was exhibited at the Henry Moore Gallery in London. (via autOmat)
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