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While Guy Fieri's social media presence is usually pretty upbeat, he recently took to Instagram to acknowledge the death of a friend. Steve Harwell, the lead singer of Smash Mouth, passed away on September 4. Harwell, a longtime friend of the Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives star, was 56 and died of acute liver failure.

Fieri posted a carousel of photos of himself with Harwell and the caption: "To my brutha Steve RIP Today is a sad day, I will miss my friend."

Fans commented on the Instagram post, giving their condolences. In a nod to Smash Mouth's hit songs, All Star and Walking on the Sun, one person wrote: "He was a real All Star but now he’s finally Walkin on the sun. RIP Legend."

"Sorry for your loss. He brought joy to millions!," commented another well-wisher.

Fieri and Harwell had been friends for years, with some even speculating that they were the same person, according to Mashed. The Food Network personality even contributed to Harwell's cookbook, Recipes from The Road: A Cookbook, in 2013. In 2011, Mashed reports that Fieri also cooked 24 eggs for Harwell to eat in an effort to raise money for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.

We're sending Fieri all of our condolences.

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[–] phoneymouse 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Had no idea these two were friends, but it kind of makes sense.

[–] glimse 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was convinced they were the same person for awhile

[–] phoneymouse 2 points 1 year ago

I’m just going to leave this here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Steve Harwell is dining in Flavortown™ every night now

[–] ShunkW 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, bigots love Nazis. Not surprising.

[–] Zomg 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar can you explain?

[–] ShunkW 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guy Fieri has been accused of homophobia and the singer of smash mouth literally threw up Nazi salutes on stage multiple times on camera.

[–] javasux 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ShunkW 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.grubstreet.com/2011/10/guy-fieri-takedown.html

Amazing that this PR stunt would come later. How fascinating.

[–] Hazdaz -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These days if people aren't endlessly pandering to certain entitled groups, they'll get labeled as being anti_____ . This shit is getting old.

[–] ShunkW 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He literally said that gay people "weird him out"

[–] Hazdaz -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WOW, he's so evil!1!!!

He should change his name from Guy Fieri to Adolf Fieri, am I right?!? Worst human being ever!!

[–] ShunkW 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you're not allowed to criticize people for being homophobic now? Got it.

[–] Soulg -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Saying that they weird him out is not good but it's obviously not the same as actually hating them or wanting to discriminate against them. I'm straight, and the idea of having sex with another man weirds me out. Doesn't make me a bigot.

Plus he's literally officiated gay weddings. I know that's been brought up before but you sure were quick to just ignore that because it didn't suit your needs

And that's not even touching the idea that saying something somewhat unfavorable about gay people being nazi adjacent is horribly offensive.

[–] ShunkW 1 points 1 year ago

That's not what I said. Being afraid to be around gay people is literally homophobic. So I called him a bigot. I called the dude from smash mouth a Nazi cuz he literally Nazi saluted on stage multiple times.