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On the Owls Nest BBQ Show, Joey Chestnut says he has yet to reach an agreement about competing in Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest this year.
Joey Chestnut will attempt to set the popcorn record at a Rural King in Terre Haute, IN on Memorial Day, May 26.
Joey Chestnut's relationship with Impossible Foods might have ended. Basketball influencer Briana Green appears in a new ad for their plant based hot dogs, when Joey would have been the obvious choice. Joey has not made any videos for Impossible Foods since December.
Joey Chestnut to attempt wing poundage record
update Joey ate 14.4 pounds of wing meat
Joey Chestnut will attempt to set a record tomorrow at Buffalo Wild wings for the most pounds of traditional wings eaten in a session. He does not have the MLE traditional wing poundage record:
| 2011 Apr 13 | 1st | 10.6875 | 12 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship | Dallas, TX |
| 2011 Apr 13 | 2nd | 10.25 | 12 min | Bob “The Notorious B.O.B.” Shoudt | Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship | Dallas, TX |
| 2011 Apr 13 | 3rd | 7.9375 | 12 min | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship | Dallas, TX |
| 2011 Apr 13 | 4th | 7.875 | 12 min | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship | Dallas, TX |
| 2012 Sep 2 | 1st | 7.61 | 12 min | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | U.S. National Buffalo Wing Eating Championship | Buffalo, NY |
Joey Chestnut will attend the July 19 Lansing Lugnuts game, in which they will rename themselves as the Capital City Olive Burgers. A Joey Chestnut bobblehead doll will be given away to fans.
2025 Wings for Wishes
The SportsGrill Instagram has started a live video of this afternoon’s Wings for Wishes wing eating contest in Miami. Joey Chestnut will compete. Announced results (10 minutes)
1 James Webb 224
2 Joey Chestnut 192
3 Nick Wehry 147
4 Miki Sudo 141
5 Tanner Gray 122
6 Mirza Selmic 83
7 Brennen Taylor 64
8 Crazy Legs Conti 58
Joey Chestnut will attend the Philadelphia Union MLS soccer game on March 16 in honor of dollar dog day. $98 tickets for a "Meat and Greet" with Joey are almost sold out.
JoBlo on Chestnut/Kobayashi feud
JoBlo has a post about recent critical comments by Joey Chestnut about Takeru Kobayashi that begun when Chestnut objected to Japanese competitive eating fan Fun Doshiyo’s claim on February 27 that Kobayashi would beat Chestnut in foods other than hot dogs. Chestnut’s criticism escalated as the thread continued.
If he competed against me and other great eaters, I can say with almost absolute confidence that Kobayashi would place 2nd, 3rd, or 4th in every contest. He is a shell of his former self. I think his personal life has taken a toll on his professional life.
The Overpromised with Covino and Rich podcast has an interview with Joey Chestnut recorded at the Super Bowl. He says he has yet to reach an agreement with Major League Eating about returning to Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
2025 Siegel’s Bagelmania eating contest
update The Las Vegas Review Journal has an article. Joey Chestnut says he has yet to reconcile with Nathan’s.
Full results are on Instagram. MLE appears to have abandoned X
| 1st | 15 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 14.5 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 3rd | 13.125 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 4th | 13 | James Webb | |
| 4th | 13 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 9 | Gideon Oji | |
| 7th | 8.625 | Tanner Gray | |
| 8th | 7.375 | Stan “Bandana Eats” van Gorden | |
| 9th | 7.25 | George Chiger | |
| 10th | 4 | Mirza Selmic | |
| 11th | 3.75 | Naader “Freak8r” Reda | |
| 12th | 2 | Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzie” Salgado |
The field: Stan “Bandana Eats” van Gorden, Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzy” Salgado, Naader Reda, Tanner Gray, the 2024 MLE rookie of the year, Mike Zeldish ?, George Chiger, Gideon Oji, Nick Wehry, James Webb, Geoff Esper, Pat Bertoletti, Joey Chestnut
Fro14 has started a livestream of today’s World Bagel Eating Championship at Siegel’s Bagelmania in Las Vegas.
Joey CHestnut appeared on News 3 Las Vegas to promote Saturday's Siegel's Bagemania World Bagel Eating Championship.
Joey Chestnut attended the media day for Monday's college football national championship game in Atlanta between Ohio State and Notre Dame. He predicted a 42-36 victory for the Buckeyes.
Joey Chestnut did interviews with the San Diego Union Tribune and Times of San Diego to promote his appearance as the Grand Marshal of the Holiday Bowl. He plans to defend his title at Siegel's Bagelmania in Las Vegas in February.
Joey Chestnut has been named the Honorary Chairman at the Holiday Bowl in San Diego on December. He will also serve as "Chief Egg Nog Official" and oversee dousing the winning coach in egg nog. It is not clear if he will perform an eating exhibition or contest at the event.
The Impossible Foods X account posted a video today of Joey Chestnut cooking "meatless" meatballs, so his endorsement deal with that vegan brand apparently continues. Major League Eating had demanded that he terminate the relationship to return to the organization, but he competed in Saturday's shrimp cocktail eating contest.
2024 St. Elmo Shrimp Cocktail Eating Contest
update Fox 59 article | WTHR video
update Dec 13 The Pat McAfee show did a segment about encountering Joey Chestnut after the contest
| 1st | 21 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | new record |
| 2nd | 14 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 3rd | 11.2 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 10.5 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 8.2 | Gideon Oji | |
| 6th | 7.3 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 4.5 | Andrew “The Bear” Kogutkiewicz | |
| 8th | 2.9 | Mark Enstrom |
St. Elmo facebook plans to livestream the contest starting at 3:30 pm Eastern
Announced results (8 minutes)
1 Joey Chestnut 21 pounds
2 Pat Bertoletti 14 pounds
3 Miki Sudo 11 pounds
Joey Chestnut has apparently reconciled with Major League Eating. He appeared on WISH and Fox59 this morning to promote Saturday's St. Elmo shrimp cocktail eating contest in Indianapolis. If Joey competes, it would be his first MLE contest since May. Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry are also expected to compete. update Joey confirmed he will compete on the Fox 59 morning news. Geoff Esper and Pat Bertoletti are also expected to compete. update On the Bob & Tom Show, Joey says says he has yet to reconcile with Nathan's Famous and is not sure if he will compete to regain his title on July 4. He also hinted at a possible Unfinished Beef II matchup vs. Takeru Kobayashi in Tokyo.
Joey Chestnut ate 47 pierogies in 90 seconds during halftime of last night's Cleveland Cavaliers game.
NWAHomePage.com reports Joey Chestnut did a "Hot Ones" style spicy chicken nugget challenge at the University of Health and Performance in Benton County, AR as part of its Veterans Day celebration yesterday.
Bloomberg has a column about the hot dog eating contest held at the MustardFest in Springfield, Ohio on September 21. The majority of the piece discusses Haitian immigrants in Springfield. Joey Chestnut made a personal appearance at the event, but did not participate in the competition that was won by Jack Legath.
Joey Chestnut turned down “Beetlejuice 2” cameo
ScreenRant.com has a post about director Tim Burton’s request for Joey Chestnut to have a cameo role in Beetlejuice 2. Chestnut turned down the offer to focus on training for a contest, most likely Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest in 2023.
During Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2 commentary feature, the director speaks about the creative nature of developing the latest batch of dead people seen in the afterlife. Among the group is a man who died during a hot dog-eating contest, one of the first afterlife characters Burton created, and someone Betelgeuse is sitting next to while in the waiting room in the sequel. Burton’s Beetlejuice 2 commentary reveals he actually wanted famous hot dog contest eater Joey Chestnut to play the afterlife character, but the competitor was too busy training for an upcoming event.
Burton shared that he was inspired by Chestnut’s record-breaking events when creating afterlife characters, so he decided to add someone who died as a result of eating too many hot dogs. When Beetlejuice 2 started filming, Chestnut would’ve been prepping to compete in the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest held every Fourth of July.
Joey Chestnut faced off against two Indiana University students in a corn eating contest televised on Big Noon Kickoff before today's game against the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Joey Chestnut will attend the Ocean Beach, CA Oktoberfest tomorrow. He will be the toastmaster for an event sponsored by Jagermeister that will attempt to set a Guinness record for the most people toasting simultaneously.
Joey Chestnut will be speaking and cooking one of his favorite dishes today at the Kroger Wellness Festival in Cincinnati. Other celebrities appearing at the Wellness Festival today include controversial model Chrissy Teigen and former MLB shortstop Alex Rodgriguez, who was suspended for the entire 2014 season for a PED scandal.
Joey Chestnut appeared at tonight's Atlanta Falcons game to promote Free Hot Dog Night.
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