The New York Post has an article about Englishwoman Charna Rowley quitting her job to focus on a youtube channel (currently at 3,040 subscribers) in which she eats meals containing up to 5,500 calories. Boy George,former lead singer of the Culture Club, was unimpressed by the the career decision.
Youtube has an Alka Seltzer commercial set at a pie eating contest recorded at Yankee Stadium in the 1960s. (I am not aware of any actual eating contests being held at Yankee Stadium.)
Wired has a video about Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper pepper.
Three members of Barstool Sports faced off against Yasir Salem in a pizza eating contest.
WatchMojo has a video titled "Top 5 Unappetizing Things You Didn't Know About Eating Contests"
Taiwan News reports (in English) that Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen appeared in the lastest video by food challenger Chien Tsu to discuss the new Southbound Policy and Vietnamese meals. "Chien Chien" became famous after competing for the Taiwanese team for the Japanese program "Battle of the Big Eaters" in 2016 and currently has 1.23 million subscribers to her youtube channel.
Geoff Esper completed the Big Texan 72 ounce steak challenge in 5:08, surpassing Joey Chestnut (8:52) for the fastest non Molly Schuyler time for the meal.
Sometime today, Leah Shutkever (58.9K) passed Kate Ovens (58.8K) as the UK female competitive eater with the most youtube subscribers.
Eater.com has a youtube video titled "How the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Became an ESPN Icon". The video contains a demonstration contest won by Badlands Booker in which George Shea catches Crazy Legs Conti cheating. (Eater.com blog entry)
Eric "Badlands" Booker announced that his Badlands Chugs youtube channel surpassed a million subscribers.
Youtube has a video of the opening ceremonies of a pasta eating contest between professional wrestlers Hulk Hogan and Randy "Macho Man" Savage held in 1995 to promote the opening of Hulk Hogan's Pastamania! restaurant at the Mall of American in Bloomington, MN. (The video ends before the competition starts) (via Guy Hutchinson)
A video of Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco breaking the Guinness World Record for mayonnaise eating has surpassed 30 million views according to facebook.
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.
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