Poor Guy Fieri. First he gets torched in a New York Times dining review for slathering something called Donkey Sauce all over something called a Big Bite Burger. And now, he gets booted from the Beachland Ballroom — figuratively speaking, anyway.
“Guy Fieri has been thrown out of the Beachland! We painted over his stencil!” announced Beachland owner Cindy Barber, referring to Fieri’s habitual destruction of private property. At the conclusion of filming his Food Network show “Triple D,” Fieri marks his territory with a stencil and a can of spray paint.
Barber, describing Fieri’s visit a few summers back, when he and a crew filmed over the course of two days, said the uber-popular chef was rude, condescending and none-too-thrilled to be there.
“Fieri walked in and loudly said ‘Why are we shooting here?'” Barber recalls, adding that the celeb chef was arrogant even to his production crew. Despite that, he still tagged the premises.
After all that, the episode never saw the light of day on television.
Since the filming, the stenciled likeness of the platinum-haired, pink-cheeked personality has been altered from “Guy Ate Here” to “Gay Ate Here,” yet still it remained. Until recently.
“He’s gone! Good riddance!” Barber said, as if exorcising an evil spirit.
This article appears in Feb 6-12, 2013.
I KNEW HE WAS A ‘EFFING DOOSHBAG…I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cindy…DO NOT waste your time on dooshbag film crews that don’t get what you are about…
I wanna punch him in the throat so bad right now….
Stay cool Beachland…..
Why was it left up for years if he was such an asshole?
Karl welzein is not amused
Mr. Trattner, it seems to me we lack Mr. Fieri’s side of the story. Or for that matter ANY corroborating narrative. Is that your idea of a fair and balanced story? The horribly sad thing is, I’ll bet your proud of this one sided reporting. Fascism, alive and well at Scene magazine!
I can’t stand that man, but speaking sarcastically as a gay man: Thanks for making it say “gay”, especially in the context that gay means “stupid”. That doesn’t make you look like 3rd grade assholes one bit. I’m sure your other minority customers think it’s hilarious as well.
As a gay Clevelander, I am disappointed. I always felt that Cindy Barber was a brilliant entrepreneur as well as a neighborhood and live entertainment booster. Now, it’s obvious that she views some of us as less than others. Doesn’t sound like “sex, drugs and rock n’ roll” to me. The community should not have tolerated this display which, obviously, would be hurtful to many of their friends and family.