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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vulture.com has produced an animation of the Star Trek pie eating contest described in last night's episode of Breaking Bad.
The Steak and Catfish Barn in Edmond, OK, site of the catfish challenge in the Oklahoma City episode of Man v Food will close at the end of this month so its owners can retire in Italy.
At a press conference promoting the upcoming season of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston joked that his character, Walter White, ate 38.5 hot dogs in the 1978 Nathan's finals.
An English-language a facebook fan page about Japanese competitive eating TV programs has been set up at https://www.facebook.com/ooguijapan
In tonight's episode of Honey Boo Boo (9 PM ET/PT on TLC), "Pumpkin" the sister of the show's protagonist, will attempt to eat the Pigzilla barbecue sandwich challenge at Papa Buck's BBQ in Metter, GA. Dale Boone is the only person to previously finish the challenge. update July 25 Grantland.com has a column about the episode
Zach Galifianakis will guest-star in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons as an aspiring competitive eater befriended by Lisa.
MyFoxChicago.com held a promo contest to promote Bartolini's meatball eating contest on Sunday.
The Hollywood Reporter announces that the broadcast of the 2013 Nathan's finals on ESPN2 attracted 1.15 million viewers and a 0.7 rating, a decline from the 0.8 rating the tape-delayed broadcast received in 2012 (# of 2012 viewers not specified). The last live coverage on ESPN in 2011 attracted 1.949 million viewers.
ESPN Sportsnation will host an online chat session with Joey Chestnut today at 2:30 ET / 11:30a PT.
Last year's cupcake eating contest held at Coney Island will be televised on the July 1 episode of DC Cupcakes on TLC at 7pm ET/PT. Stephanie Torres ate 71 cupcakes to win the contest.

ESPN2 to show Sportscenter instead of Nathan’s womens finals

The 2013 Nathan’s TV schedule is now out (scroll down to “Great Events”). ESPN2 will start live coverage of the men’s finals at noon EDT while ESPN televises Wimbledon. The broadcast will be rerun on ESPN at 1 pm EDT and 7 pm EDT and on ESPN2 at 5 pm EDT.

The women’s finals will be webcast on ESPN3.com starting at 11:30. ESPN2 will be showing Sportscenter at that time, so the women’s finals could be televised live if the Sportscenter starting at 7 am EDT on that channel was truncated from five hours to 4:30.

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High Noon Entertainment posted a casting notice for Southern California competitive eaters who would like to appear on TruTV's Guinness World Records Gone Wild. (via examiner.com)
The television schedule for this year's Wimbledon tournament lists that ESPN will televise the women's semifinals from 9am - 1pm eastern on July 4, which will conflict with live coverage of the Nathan's finals on that channel. Last year's Nathan's finals were webcast live on ESPN3.com and tape-delayed on ESPN. update June 14 An IFOCE.com page about the finals (which lists the defending women's champion as Sonya Morgan) says they will be televised live on ESPN2.
An unnamed competitive eater will host the new series "All You Can Eat", which will debut on the National Geographic network in Canada on August 29.
Jamie McDonald appeared on yesterday's episode of Better Connecticut (video) to promote Saturday's opening of his new restaurant, Bear's Smokehosue BBQ. There will be a $1,000 bonus if someone eats more than Jamie in the macaroni & cheese eating contest.
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