Guy Fieri is trying to turn down the heat.
While attending UFC 327 fight at Kaseya Center in Miami April 11, the Food Network star ran into controversial sibling duo Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate.
After a video of their exchange circulated on social media, showing the Diners, Drive-Ins host and Dives shaking hands and sharing a brief embrace with the influencers, Guy reacted to backlash from fans and denied any connection to the pair.
“I’m seeing all of your comments about the photo from Saturday’s UFC event and all I can say is that I’m devastated,” Guy wrote on X April 14. “I was there to see the fights and when I was walking through the venue, the Tate brothers stood up and said hello and that’s when the exchanged [sic] happened.”
The 58-year-old—dad to sons Hunter, 29, and Ryder, 20, with wife Lori Fieri—clarified, “I did not know them or about them before that moment.”