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Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie appear in the latest video (at 3:45 mark) by Mr. Beast which recreates Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. The video is currently the #1 trending video on youtube.
Citing health issues, Joey Chestnut announced his withdrawal from Friday's Jack’s Donuts World Donut Hole Eating Championship in New Castle, IN. This will extend his winless streak to about six months and sets up the possibility that he will enter Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest with no 2022 victories. update IndyStar reports a positive COVID test was responsible for the withdrawal.
14 News reports Joey Chestnut was a celebrity judge and award presenter for the Backyard Cooking Competition at today's International Bar-B-Q Festival in Owensboro, KY. The event did not hold a mutton slider eating contest as in previous years.
The Cartoon Network has posted a clip from a 2020 episode of "Scooby Doo and Guess Who?" in which Scooby and Shaggy are surprise entrants in Haggerty's Hot Dog Eating Contest featuring Joey Chestnut and an unnamed Asian competitor.
Joey Chestnut will do a "Meat & Greet" and serve as a celebrity judge for the cooking competition at the Bar-B-Q Block Party in Owensboro, KY on May 14. The event will not hold a mutton sandwich eating contest as it did from 2017-2019
Barstool Sports calls Joey Chestnut a "First Ballot Hall of Fame American Hero".
Joey Chestnut appeared on Fox 59, WISH TV and the Hammer and Nigel show to promote Saturday's St. Elmo Shrimp Cocktail Eating Championsip in Indianapolis.
Joey Chestnut appeared on Fox 59 this morning to discuss his Thanksgiving leftover recipes and promote his line of condiments.
Joey Chestnut faced off against football players from Coastal Carolina in a pizza eating contest after their victory in Conway, SC over Texas State.
2021 Fat Boys Pizza contest
update Nov 14 LSU Tailgating has a video. WRBZ has an article
Official Results 24 inch slices, 10 minutes
| 1st | 4.625 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 4.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 2.75 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 4th | 2 | George Chiger | |
| 5th | 1.75 | “Big Eater Mike” Michael Whities | |
| 6th | 1 | Jason Krause | |
| 6th | 1 | Jocelyn Walker | |
| 8th | 0.75 | T-Bob Hebert | former LSU center |
| 8th | 0.75 | Scott Levine | |
| 10th | 0.67 | Rene Rovtar |
It appears that Geoff Esper won today’s Fat Boys Pizza contest in Baton Rouge, LA.
Joey Chestnut was the guest star on a 2020 episode of "Scooby Doo and Guess Who?" in which Scooby and Shaggy crash a hot dog eating contest where Joey is facing off against "Big Eddy". Boomerang Africa has a clip of his appearance (starts at 3:00)
AS.com has an article in Spanish about Joey Chestnut which claims that he is a millionaire from competitive eating.
Joey Chestnut will defend his Fat Boy’s Pizza Eating Championship title in Baton Rouge, LA on November 13. The contest will take place on the Louisiana State University campus before the LSU vs. Arkansas game.
Joey Chestnut ate 12 four inch Table Talk blueberry pies in 90 seconds during Saturday night's Worcester Railers hockey game to defeat 4 teams of 2 amateurs.
Joey Chestnut will compete in a pie eating contest at the Worcester (MA) Railers game on October 23. Two fans will be chosen at random to compete; raffle tickes are $5.
Destination Outlets pumpkin pie contest
| 1st | 16.75 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 15.75 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 10.75 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 10.75 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 9.125 | Bartley Weaver, IV | |
| 6th | 7.4375 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 7.25 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 8th | 6.125 | James Ball | |
| 9th | 4.75 | John Gebhard | |
| 10th | 4.125 | Matthew Raible | |
| 11th | 1.75 | Rene Rovtar |
2021 Trenton Thunder pork roll contest
Official results. 10 minute contest
| 1st | 45 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 41 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 36 | Ricardo Corbucci | |
| 4th | 32 | Darron Breeden | |
| 5th | 21 | George Chiger | |
| 6th | 12 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 7th | 11.5 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 8th | 10 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 9th | 7.5 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 10th | 7 | Alex “Moose” Perez | |
| 11th | 5.5 | Julie Goldberg |
Bob Shoudt is in attendance and has a youtube livestream of the contest
Joey Chestnut defends Zinzinnati bratwurst title
Official results of today’s bratwurst eating contest at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati (10 minutes)
WCPO article
| 1st | 68 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 66 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 51.5 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 43.5 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 5th | 34 | Bartley Weaver, IV | |
| 6th | 30 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 29 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 8th | 15 | John Gebhard | |
| 8th | 15 | Cameron LaFleur |
Miki Sudo wins 2021 Buffalo Wing Festival wing contest
Miki Sudo edged Joey Chestnut 246 wings to 244, to win today’s wing eating contest at the National Chicken Wing Festival in Buffalo. update George Shea has the top 4, which is all that will apparently be posted
| 1st | 246 | Miki Sudo | |
| 2nd | 244 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 220 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 220 | Nick Wehry | |
| ? | ? | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| ? | ? | George Chiger | |
| ? | ? | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| ? | ? | Gideon Oji |
Gideon Oji wins Buffalo Buffet Bowl
The top 3 from the Buffalo Buffet Bowl, posted 5 hours after the contest start:
1 Gideon Oji 4:41 to eat 5 pounds of Buffalo food items
2 Miki Sudo 5:32, first contest since giving birth
3 Joey Chestnut 5:55
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati announced the return of the World Brat Eating Championship to Cincinnati on September 19. Joey Chestnut is expected to compte.
Joey Chestnut in Twitter Trending Topics
Joey Chestnut is currently the #3 Twitter Trending Topic for the United States. The social media activity was spurred by a recent study claiming that eating one hot dog will reduce a diner’s lifespan by 35 minutes.
According to the eatfeats database, Joey Chestnut has eaten 1364.5 Nathan’s Famous hot dogs in 22 public events (17 finals, 3 qualifiers and 2 exhibitions). If the study is accurate, this would truncate Joey Chestnut’s lifespan by 47,757.5 minutes, or slightly more than 33 days. A list of all of Joey Chestnut’s Nathan’s Famous hot dog results follows.
Joey Chestnut will appear at the CasaBlanca Rib Festival in Mesquite, NV on September 11. He will face off against VIPs in a BBQ eating contest and also judge a watermelon eating contest.
CrossingBroad.com has a post about Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni showing his team a video of Joey Chestnut competing against Takeru Kobayashi. He said that their greatness was due to focusing on detail and fundamentals.
Insider.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut, who says his fingers were frostbitten after the Baked Bear ice cream sandwich eating contest in 2017.
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