Guy Fieri celebrated his 58th birthday with not just cake and candles, but also a completely new face.
“This isn’t Guy,” the internet collectively said as their brains refused to accept the Food Network star’s new avatar. Even his wife, Lori, and 29-year-old son, Hunter Fieri, had strong feelings about the look.
The TV personality later explained why he decided to “go big” with his dramatic transformation.
Guy Fieri celebrated his 58th birthday with a completely new face
Guy Fieri turned 58 years old on January 22, 2026.
To mark the festivities, he ditched his spiky blonde hair, his signature goatee, and his flaming-hot shirts to debut a squeaky-clean new look.
“New Year. New Guy. New Look,” he wrote in the caption.
The Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives host shared a video of himself in front of a cake to mark his birthday.
“Hey there,” he said in the clip. “After so many years of celebrating my birthday as Guy, I figured this year, I’d celebrate it as just a guy.”
“Happy birthday to me,” he said and then blew out the candles.
The Food Network star explained the reason why he invented a brand-new look
Days after debuting the new look on social media, Guy explained that he had reinvented his look for an upcoming Super Bowl commercial for Bosch.
He said he went all in and stepped into the role of “JustaGuy.”
“If you’re going to go big, go big,” he told People. “They said, ‘Well, can you shave your goatee?’ And I said, ‘I would for this. This is such an important commercial. This is such a big deal.’”
The upcoming Bosch ad reportedly took months to develop, and it will feature two avatars of Guy Fieri.
One would be his flamboyant, unapologetically loud persona that viewers know him for.
The second would be the aggressively normal, clean-cut look that fans can’t wrap their heads around.
“I sent the picture to my mom and she said, ‘Who is that?’” he recalled
Guy admitted that his family members, too, couldn’t recognize him.
“I sent the picture to my mom and she said, ‘Who is that?’” he told the outlet. “She said, ‘It really looks a lot like you, but I know it’s not you.’ I said, ‘Mom, that’s me.’”
Meanwhile, his wife, Lori, also needed a buffering moment to recognize him on the set of the commercial.
“She’d look at me and go, ‘Oh — it’s you. I didn’t even know it was you,’” he said.
Guy went on to talk about his “JustaGuy” transformation, saying the wig alone took a couple of hours each day to apply.
“It was the craziest 24 to 36 hours of my filming career,” he said. “We shot it like a movie. Nothing was spared.”
“It took two hours to put the wig on,” he added. “When you see the picture, you’re either going to want to buy a life insurance policy from me or you’re going to want to go out to Bingo.”
“Why does this make me so uncomfortable??” one commenter asked online
Fans of the longtime restaurateur claimed, “he looks like a regular middle-aged man now.”
“Dad… when did you start selling insurance?” his son Hunter Fieri wrote in the comments section.
Chef Joshua Weissman also commented, saying, “Wow, I barely recognized him. Bro looks like my car salesman. Happy birthday!!”
“Bro lost all his Fieri, now he’s just Guy,” one fan said, while another quipped, “He looks like Fred Flintstone.”
As the comparisons poured in, one said, “all I see is the dad from Young Sheldon.”
“That’s just Cam from Modern Family,” another chimed in.
Fans said his new look gave “total stepdad vibes”
Many were convinced that Guy’s new avatar was conjured up by artificial intelligence (AI).
“This has to be AI,” one commenter said.
Another wrote, “Look at what AI did to our boy!”
A Bosch spokesperson confirmed that AI was not used in the making of JustaGuy.
Image credits: Bosch
“Guy’s birthday post is not AI,” they told People. “The video was shot with Guy Fieri himself, and the Justaguy transformation was achieved using high-end post-production visual effects.”
Guy’s birthday video on social media was just a teaser of the full Bosch commercial that will air during the Super Bowl on February 8.
“Be prepared for the Super Bowl commercial,” Guy said. “You’re not ready.”
“Is he going to start selling insurance, shoes? What what is it? What is he selling!!!!” read one comment online
