Guy Fieri Recalls Son Ryder, 18, Learning That He Owns Multiple Homes: 'He Kind of Perks Up'

Mar. 15, 2025

Guy Fieri’s children will get a piece of Flavortown — just not quite yet.

TheDiners, Drive-Ins and Divesstar, 56, took journalist Graham Bensinger on a tour of his 42-acre home in Northern California forIn Depth with Graham Bensinger.

Guy and Ryder Fieri.Tim Nwachukwu/Getty

Tim Nwachukwu/Getty

The letters represent his two sons,Hunter, 28, and Ryder, 18, whom he shares with wifeLori. Guy, 56, showed Bensinger the landscaping detail, which shares a design with a tattoo on his arm and the branding they use for cattle.

“It’s all in their name anyways,” he told Bensinger of his children.

Guy Fieri on ‘In Depth With Graham Bensinger’.In Depth with Graham Bensinger

In Depth with Graham Bensinger

Guy explained that his youngest had only recently learned the true scope of his inheritance.

“Ryder just found out yesterday. We were having a big finance meeting and my attorney was here and he said, ‘Well, you understand, Ryder, that the houses over where your grandma lives and your brother lives, you own those houses,’” he said.

He continued, reenacting theSan Diego State University student’sreaction, “And he kind of perks up and I’m like, ‘You don’t own them now! They’re in a trust and I run the trust and I’m alive!’”

Guy Fieri with nephew Jules, sons Ryder and Hunter.Ryder Fieri/Instagram

Ryder Fieri/Instagram

“[The attorney] goes, ‘Well, you know it is my fiduciary responsibility now that he is 18 that he knows that he owns it.’ I said, ‘You’re fired,’” Guy joked to Bensinger.

In December, he toldFox Newsthat he doesn’t plan on giving his sons hismoney without them getting two degrees.

Guy learned this tough-love mentality fromhis late father: “I’ve told them the same thing my dad told me. My dad says, ‘When I die, you can expect that I’m going to die broke, and you’re going to be paying for the funeral.'”

“And I told my boys, ‘None of this that we’ve been…that I’ve been building are you going to get unless you come and take it from me,'" he added.

source: people.com