Erik "The Electric" Lamkin announced yesterday that he had surpassed a million subscribers for his youtube channel.
Wayne Algenio ate 54 zeppoles (Italian donut holes) in 6 minutes to win the first zeppole eating contest at the Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan. The victory was his second of the festival after setting the cannoli record on Friday.
Brazilian competitive eater Corbucci Eats announced his intention to qualify for the 2020 Nathan's finals in a video he posted today.
A movie about Indian competitive eater Theeta Rappai (not in English, no subtitles) can be viewed on youtube.
"Uk Chilli Queen" Shanina Waseem attempted to eat 50 Carolina Reaper peppers yesterday. update League of Fire video
Former WWE wrestler Ryback has started a food challenge youtube channel youtube channel. He has requested eating challenges for him to attempt on his twitter.
Youtube has a Guinness World Records video about Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco documenting her attempt to set the mayonnaise eating record and break the fastest time to eat a single hot dog without use of hands. (via Big Eaters Club & PhillyD) update The Guinness website has an article about Michelle Lesco.
Brandon Clark has uploaded a video of his victory over Molly Schuyler at a hot dog eating contest held at The Smoking Gun in San Diego on July 4.
Leah Shutkever was named a "Creator on the Rise" by Youtube Creators.
Molly Schuyler has surpassed 100,000 youtube subscribers, the second American female competitive eater to do so. (Raina Huang is currently at 209K).
News 12 has a video about Wayne Algenio winning the Artichoke Pizza eating contest for the third time yesterday.
George Chiger and Julie Goldberg competed in a Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on Fox & Friends this morning in observance of National Hot Dog Day.
Sarah Ow of Singapore has started a youtube channel. Her first video is a buffet destruction with Zermatt Neo.
A segment about Leah Shutkever from the recent Channel 4 documentary titled "Battle of The Super Eaters" can be viewed on youtube. The documentary can be viewed in its entirety for the next three days for free on the channel's website.
Eric "Badlands" Booker discusses on the Viral Family youtube challenge how he almost choked during an eating contest and provides advice on handling food lodged in your throat along with tips on wing eating techniques.
A segment of last week's Battle of the Super Eaters about Leah Shutkever can be viewed on the Channel 4 facebook page.
A post about the video where LA Beast uses power tools to facilitate beer consumption made the front page of reddit.com. The thread currently has about 1600 comments.
Tasty has a video about the construction of giant chicken nuggets and fries for Raina Huang to attempt to eat.
Joey Chestnut appeared on SI Now to talk about his training techniques. Full video.
Dan "Killer" Kennedy and Jordan Tracy attempted the 30 inch pizza challenge at Family Chill and Grill / Firehouse Pizza in a segment for WTAJ.
A 1991 episode of the cable public access show Beyond Vaudville has an interview with Frank "Large" Dellarosa, the Nathan's champion of 1991 and 1992, (starts at 8:45). He says he broke a the overall contest record from 1959, which he calls the first year of the contest.
DailyAstorian.com has an article about former MLE competitor Cameron McKirdy, who has reached 10,000 subscribers for his Survival Bros youtube channel.
Kids Access Press Team has a video of interviews done at the red carpet at the premier of The Good, The Bad, The Hungry. When asked about "reversals", Tim Janus said everyone did it after the competition concluded.
The Brazilian youtube channel Corbucci Eats has surpassed a million subscribers.
Joey Chestnut did an interview for CBS Local about The Good, The Bad, The Hungry. He is more sympathetic to Takeru Kobayashi's grievances that he has previously been saying (around 7:20) "There are things he was right about. The contract needed to change." He also talks about the Wing Bowl and The Amazing race and announces the ESPN air date for the documentary as July 2.
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