Takeru Kobayashi is a Japanese competitive eater.
Amanda Louise Holden is an English actress and media personality. Since 2007, she has judged on the television talent show competition Britain's Got Talent on ITV. She currently co-hosts the Heart Breakfast radio show with Jamie Theakston on weekday mornings.
Wing Bowl was an annual eating contest founded in 1993 by Philadelphia talk-radio hosts Angelo Cataldi and Al Morganti. The contest was first broadcast on WIP.
Competitive eating, or speed eating, is an activity in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short time period. Contests are typically eight to ten minutes long, although some competitions can last up to thirty minutes, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner. Competitive eating is most popular in the United States, Canada, and Japan, where organized professional eating contests often offer prizes, including cash.
Gail Simmons is a Canadian food writer and cookbook author. She has served as a permanent judge on Bravo's Emmy-winning series Top Chef, since the show's inception in 2006. Simmons was previously the head critic on Top Chef Duels and host of Top Chef: Just Desserts, Bravo's pastry-focused spin-off of the Top Chef franchise. She was also co-host of The Feed, which aired in 2014 on FYI, A+E's new lifestyle network. In addition to her work on Top Chef, Gail makes frequent television appearances on NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America, among others. She has been featured in such publications as New York magazine, Travel + Leisure, GQ, People, Los Angeles Times, and more.
Algae eater, also called an algivore, is a common name for many bottom-dwelling or algae-eating species that feed on algae. Algae eaters are important for the fishkeeping hobby and many are commonly kept by hobbyists.
Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern is a travel and cuisine television show hosted by Andrew Zimmern on the Travel Channel in the US. The first season debuted on Monday, February 6, 2007 at 9pm ET/PT.
Emeril John Lagassé III is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author, and National Best Recipe award winner for his "Turkey and Hot Sausage Chili" recipe in 2003. He is a regional James Beard Award winner, known for his mastery of Creole and Cajun cuisine and his self-developed "New New Orleans" style.
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! is a British survival reality television show, created by London Weekend Television (LWT), produced by ITV Studios, and aired on ITV. The format sees a group of celebrities living together in extreme conditions with few creature comforts. Each member undertakes challenges to secure additional food and treats for the group, and to avoid being voted out by viewers during their stay, with the final episode's votes nominating who wins a series.
Leon Feingold is a baseball player, polyamory advocate, advice columnist, and co-founder of the House of Good Deeds, from Oceanside, New York.
Man v. Food is an American food reality television series. It premiered on December 3, 2008 on the Travel Channel. The program was originally hosted by actor and food enthusiast Adam Richman. In each episode, Richman explores the "big food" offerings of a different American city before facing off against a pre-existing eating challenge at a local restaurant. The program airs in syndication at various times during the week.
Adam Montgomery Richman is an American actor, television personality, and author. He has hosted various dining and eating-challenge programs on the Travel Channel and History Channel.
Vincent J. Guadagnino is an American reality television personality, best known for being a cast member on MTV's Jersey Shore.
Daphne Nur Oz is an American television host, food writer, and chef. She was one of five co-hosts on the ABC daytime talk show The Chew for the show's first six seasons- 2011 to 2017 and is currently a co-host of the syndicated talk/cooking show The Good Dish.
Steven Rinella is an American outdoorsman, conservationist, writer, and television personality known for translating the hunting and fishing lifestyle to a wide variety of audiences. Steven has three children - two sons and one daughter.
Raw Reality With Gail Kasper is a late-night television program airing on WMCN. Each week, American actress and host Gail Kasper pokes fun at a life topic and the Odd Squad, two comedians, support her efforts along with an expert. The program ends with Pass or Fail with Gail, where a viewer's real-life situation is shared with the Odd Squad, and they must grade the viewer's response with a pass or fail.
Kevin Thomas Strahle, better known as the L.A. Beast, is an American professional competitive eater who hosts a challenge-based channel on YouTube. Strahle started making videos in his hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey then moved to Los Angeles, California. After several years at his home in California, he moved back to his hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey. As of August 2021, his channel has over 2.7 million subscribers and over 480 million total views. In addition to his online presence, he has made appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Today Show Australia and Tosh.0.
Adam Moran, better known as Beard Meats Food, is a British professional competitive eater and YouTuber.
William Simmons, known as El Wingador, is a competitive eater, author, entrepreneur, speaker and former member of the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE). Simmons achieved notoriety after winning Philadelphia's Sports Radio 94 WIP's Wing Bowl in January, 1999. Simmons eventually went on to win the competition five times between 1999 and 2005, becoming the only eater in Wing Bowl history to accomplish that feat. During Wing Bowl 14 in February 2006, Simmons' was inducted into the Wing Bowl Hall of Fame, and his name appears on a banner in the rafters at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center, the site of Wing Bowl since Wing Bowl VIII in 2000. At the peak of his eating prowess, Simmons stood at 6’5” and weighed 290 pounds.
Francis Lam is an American food journalist, cookbook editor, and since 2017 the host of American Public Media's The Splendid Table.
