Guy Fieri owns 2 homes in Florida. When will the Food Network star permanently move here?

When, or will, celebrity chef and reality TV star Guy Fieri permanently move to Florida?

Fieri bought two homes in Palm Beach County, one of which he is selling for what could be a big profit.

Does that mean we can soon call him a neighbor?

Neither Fieri's Singer Island home, which he bought in 2023, nor his Lake Worth Beach home, which he bought in 2021 and is selling, is homesteaded — a sign that he's not planning on becoming a full-time Sunshine State resident just yet.

Who is Guy Fieri? Who is Ryder Fieri?

Food Network star Guy Fieri told the Bradenton Herald in 2021 that his family would stay in Northern California at least until his youngest son Ryder Fieri finishes high school.

Guy Fieri posted on Instagram that Ryder graduated in June 2024 with a 3.7 GPA from Windsor High School, just north of Santa Rosa in Northern California. Guy said he played basketball for four years and lacrosse his senior year.

Reports say that Ryder Fieri may attend San Diego State University in the fall to study hospitality.

Since his oldest son is apparently attending grad school down here (read further for more details), then Guy Fieri and his wife, Lori, are apparent empty-nesters. So what's the holdup?

Who is Guy Fieri's family?

Guy Fieri and his wife, Lori, have been married for 29 years, having wed in 1995. They have two sons, Hunter Fieri, 27, who has appeared on his father's Food Network show "Tournament of Champions," and Ryder Fieri, 18.

People magazine said after Guy Fieri's sister, Morgan, died from metastatic melanoma in 2011, Guy and Lori raised her son, Jules. He graduated from California State University San Marcos, just north of San Diego, in May, according to People.

Jules is seen in this photo he posted on his Instagram account. He is on the right.

Who is Guy Fieri's son Hunter Fieri?

According to a February interview with Entertainment Tonight, Guy Fieri said Hunter, his older son, is now getting his master's degree at the University of Miami.

In his younger years, Hunter Fieri worked at two of his father’s California chain restaurants, Johnny Garlic’s and Tex Wasabi’s, which Guy Fieri has since sold, and started a mobile pizza business, Kulinary Gangstas.

While Guy Fieri has the nickname "Mayor of Flavortown," Hunter refers to himself as the "Prince of Flavortown" on his Instagram bio.

Hunter Fieri attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Guy Fieri's alma mater, for the school's hospitality program.

“I want to follow in the same path because I feel like I can kill it with that. I want it all,” Hunter Fieri told Delish. “I want to open my own restaurants — to have things that I created and things my dad created and run this empire.”

Guy Fieri and weight, healthy lifestyle

Guy Fieri told People in 2022 that his family inspired him to change his lifestyle and adopt healthier habits.

“I’ve changed my lifestyle in the last couple years — what I eat, when I eat, how I eat. I don’t want to be one of those guys that burns up through the tunnel,” the Food Network star told People. “I’m in better shape now than I was when I was 30. I don’t want to die young. I want to be around for my kids. I want to be around for Hunter and Ryder’s kids.”

Guy Fieri has chicken restaurants in Florida

Guy Fieri owns the Chicken Guy restaurants, with four locations in Florida:

• Dadeland mall, 7535 N. Kendall Drive, Suite 2520, Miami

• Disney Springs, 1506 E. Buena Vista Drive, Suite A, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando)

• Winter Park, 818 S. Orlando Avenue Winter Park

• Cypress Creek, 25769 Sierra Center Blvd., Wesley Chapel

Where is Guy Fieri from?

Guy Fieri was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1968 as Guy Ramsey Ferry, but changed his last name to his family's original spelling, according to Biography.

The family moved to Northern California when he was young and his first food business was a pretzel cart when he was 10. After attending the University of Las Vegas, he worked different restaurant jobs until, in 1996, he partnered with Steve Gruber. Over the next seven years, they ran an Italian restaurant named Johnny Garlic's in Santa Rosa, California, and a barbecue-sushi place called Tex Wasabi.

He got his big break in 2006 when he became the season two winner of "The Next Food Network Star." Fieri went on to host shows such as "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" and "Guy's Grocery Games."

Why did Guy Fieri say his kid won't inherit his wealth?

Guy Fieri signed an $80 million, three-year deal with the Food Network in 2021, and is worth about $100 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. But he says his kids won't inherit his wealth.

“I’ve told them the same thing my dad told me. My dad says, ‘When I die, you can expect that I’m going to die broke, and you’re going to be paying for the funeral,” Fieri told Fox News in 2023. “And I told my boys, ‘None of this that I’ve been building are you going to get unless you come and take it from me.’”

Fieri then explained what his expectations are for his sons, quoting former NBA center (and Heat star) Shaquille O'Neal.

“Shaq said it best. Shaq said, ‘If you want this cheese, you got to get two degrees.’ Well, my two degrees mean, you know, postgraduate,” he told Fox News.

“I told them, if these guys want it, they gotta give me two degrees,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “Two post-grad and then they can go after it. But they’re gonna run this show. I will be out, folks.”

Guy Fieri also runs Knuckle Sandwich, an LLC behind his food and dining empire. Hunter Fieri is believed to be part of that team as well as the Hunt & Ryde Winery, named after the Fieri boys, which produces vintages that are "born of the coastal soils of Northern California's Sonoma County," according to its website.

Hunter Fieri is engaged to Tara Bernstein.

Fieri told People in 2022 that he also had rules for cars.

“Show me that you can spend a year driving the car, not getting any dents, not getting any wrecks, not getting any tickets,” he told People. “Prove that you’ve got it all together. Then you can take your own money out of the bank and go buy a car.”

He said Ryder's first car was a used Chrysler minivan with 259,000 miles on it. It was Guy's parents' old car.

Guy Fieri cut the price of his Lake Worth Beach, Florida, home

Guy Fieri cut the price on his waterfront Lake Worth Beach, Florida, home by $755,000 after nine months on the market with no takers.

Fieri bought the 6,000-square-foot home on the gated Bella Vista Avenue in 2021 for $3.9 million. Fieri put it up for sale in September 2023 for $8.75 million — more than twice what he paid.

Multiple listing service records from the Broward, Palm Beaches and St. Lucie Realtors Group show the home on a rare corner lot with 210 feet along the Intracoastal Waterway was first reduced to $8.5 million in October and to its current price of $7.99 million in March.

Fieri purchased the home on secluded Bella Vista Avenue in March 2021 for a recorded $3.9 million, according to neighbors and three Realtors familiar with the sale.

The buyer in official Palm Beach County records is a limited liability company called Gus Ritchie 1 — a possible play on the names Gus Ferrari and Guy Ritchie, which Fieri has said fans have called him by mistake.

Fieri’s 7,400-square-foot Lake Worth Beach property is in an exclusive seven-home gated community north of the municipal golf course. It was built in 2001 but a description on real estate site Movoto says there was a $1.2 million renovation in 2010. It has five bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, a resort-style pool, outdoor kitchen, fireplace elevator, hurricane impact windows and a dock that can accommodate a 100-foot yacht.

A Fieri neighbor in Lake Worth Beachis Olympia Bishop, sister to actress Brook Shields.

And his view across the Lake Worth Lagoon is of well-heeled Palm Beach.

Guy Fieri still owns a home on Singer Island in Riviera Beach, Florida

The expansive Singer Island estate bought in July 2023 by Guy Fieri was on the market for sale fully furnished for eight months before the Flavortown kingpin picked it up at a discounted rate of $7.3 million.

That's nearly $1.5 million less than the list price for the five-bedroom, five-bathroom corner lot home dubbed as "rare" for its 230 feet of frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway and room for a 100-foot yacht.

Whether Fieri keeps the furniture, which includes a smattering of leather and heavy dark wood pieces, is unknown but sources familiar with the sale said the spikey-haired chef visited the home more than once and will likely undertake a hefty remodel.

The home, which has 6,621 square feet of indoor living space, was built in 2008 with Grecian-style columns, hand-carved coral stone fireplaces, pecky cypress beamed ceilings, an elevator that leads to the master suite, which has a private balcony and private laundry. The open kitchen has two center islands, a Wolfe eight-burner stove, double ovens, granite counters, and a restaurant-style stainless steel double-door refrigerator.

There also is a three-car garage, a summer kitchen and a 50-foot infinity pool overlooking the water.

The Singer Island home is not in a gated community but is located on the dead-end street Coral Way. It is less than two miles by water to the Lake Worth Inlet, also called the Palm Beach Inlet, and less than a mile to Phil Foster Park, which boasts a world-class diving and snorkeling area under the Blue Heron Bridge.

Kimberly Miller is a veteran journalist for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA Today Network of Florida. She covers real estate and how growth affects South Florida's environment. Subscribe to The Dirt for a weekly real estate roundup. If you have news tips, please send them to kmiller@pbpost.com. Help support our local journalism, subscribe today. 

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