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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

Official results

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

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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.

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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.
SpringfieldNewsSun reports that Joey Chestnut will appear at a hot dog eating contest at MustartFEST in Springfield, Ohio on September 21. He will do a hot dog eating exhibition and present awards to winners of an amateur hot dog eating contest that are topped with spicy condiments from Woeber's. Joey Chestnut's appearance was announced on August 25, before Springfield, Ohio received national publicity for alleged violations of pets and wildlife by Haitian immigrants. update Sept 20 The Springfield News Sun has an interview with Joey Chestnut about his appearance in Springfield, OH tomorrow.
Joey Chestnut is promoting Chili's 3 For Lunch combos, which offer an entree, bottomless chips and salsa and a non-alcoholic drink with free refills for $10.99. On October 1, he will face off against a 3 For Lunch combo.
Joey Chestnut ate 18 sausages in 3 minutes to surpass the combined total of five amateurs during halftime of today's Cincinnati Bengals game.
Joey Chestnut will be facing off against five amateurs in a bratwurst eating contest during halftime of Sunday's Cincinnati Bengals game.

Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef

Joey Chestnut has defeated Kobayashi 83 hot dogs to 67 to set a world record for a 10 minute hot dog contest.

In the first undercard, Matt Stonie defeated three aquatic Olympians (Ryan Lochte, Ryan Murphy and Max Irving) in a 3 minute wing eating contest, 53 wings to 36.

Some links about Unfinished Beef
Decider has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi
Brobible has an interview with Chestnut and Kobayashi
NYTimes article

Netflix has an instagram post about the Chestnut / Kobayashi rivalry with two major errors: Kobayashi did not reverse in the 2007 Krystal Square Off, he missed it due to “jawthritis” and Kobayashi did not compete in the 2010 Nathan’s finals, he attended as a spectator and was arrested afterwards.

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All time Chestnut vs. Kobayashi results

Here are the all time head to head results for Joey Chestnut vs. Takeru Kobayashi. They have faced 15 times from 2005 to 2010; Kobayashi finished ahead in 8 of the matchups. (This excludes the 2005 US Open of Competitive Eating, a 32 entrant tournament won by Kobayashi in which he did not face Chestnut.)
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Netflix produced a video about the rules for the "Unfinished Beef" matchup between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi.The New York Post has an article about the dunking ban for the competition. Dunking buns in water was prohibited in the 2009 Krystal Square Off slider eating contest, which Kobayashi won handily.
Netflix has a youtube video to promote "Unfinished Beef" about how Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi train for hot dog eating contests.
Project Casting has a casting call for extras for an eating competition show to be produced in Las Vegas that will pay $125. This is almost certainly the Joey Chestnut vs. Takeru Kobayashi matchup that will be streamed on Netflix on Labor Day.
Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi appeared on NBC's Today Show this morning to promote their hot dog eating contest in Las Vegas on Netflix on September 2. I think this is Kobayashi's first public appearance in the United States since a September 2019 charity burger eating contest in Miami. Joey Chestnut also appeared on the Bob & Tom Show today. He said that Kobayashi requested a ban on dunking hot dogs in water and also hints that there will be undercard eating competitions before the main event.
Netflix has produced a trailer for the "Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef" matchup that will be streamed from Las Vegas on September 2. update A press release says the event will take place at the HyperX Arena Las Vegas at Luxor Hotel and Casino.
1Iota is offering free tickets to Chestnut vs. Kobayashi - Unfinished Beef in Las Vegas on September 2. Spectators must be 21 or older.
Joey Chestnut ate 343 mini-donuts in under 8 minutes at the Queen City Exhibition in Regina, SK to break his previous record of 304. The event raised money for the Regina Food Bank.
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