TV Personality Guy Fieri stands on the red carpet prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards. This weekend, he officiated gay marriages in Miami. (Photo: Ronda Churchill, AP)
America's favorite bleached-haired, greasy-spoon-loving TV host officiated 101 weddings on Miami Beach this weekend, the Associated Press reports.
Guy Fieri, best known as host of the popular Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, participated in a mass same-sex wedding in Florida — purple tuxedo and all. Fieri's late sister was a lesbian.
According to AP, the event was organized by much-loved celebrity chef Art Smith, perhaps best known as the former personal chef to Oprah Winfrey. Smith met his partner in Miami 15 years ago, and they married in 2010.
Was an honor to be part of such an amazing day for so many loving couples #101gayweddings#sobewffpic.twitter.com/DP6olKrToK — Guy Fieri (@GuyFieri) February 22, 2015
Smith planned the ceremony and party after finding out that Florida had lifted the ban on same-sex marriages in January. And the number of weddings — 101 — was very deliberate.
Smith told AP that he chose the number to liken Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi — who opposed legalizing gay marriage — to Cruella De Vil, the classic 101 Dalmatians villain.
The chefs were in town for the Miami Food and Wine Festival.
Ace of Cakes star Duff Goldman made the cake and Chi Chi LaRue, a popular Miami drag queen, DJ'd the party. Food included fried chicken, crab-stuffed avocados and a seven-tiered wedding cake.
Check out joyous photos from the event on Twitter with the hashtag #101gayweddings.
They're, in the words of Fieri, "bomb-dot-com."
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NotGoodAtHiding on March 20th, 2018 at 21:49 UTC »
What the hell Guy Fieri do to anyone?
I_are_facepalm on March 20th, 2018 at 21:37 UTC »
By the power vested in me by the State of Flavortown and these frosted tips...
adamislolz on March 20th, 2018 at 20:28 UTC »
It’s part of his official duties as mayor of Flavortown.