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You may be forgiven for wondering what happened to Adam Richman if you remember the glory days of Man vs Food episodes.
He was the common man, the one who embraced challenges wholeheartedly. That's something we could do, and it's something we did. According to Food Challenges, Man v. Food's popularity prompted restaurants all around the world to create their food challenges, which is an impressive legacy to leave.
The show’s host had effectively inscribed himself into food mythology after four series, 59 challenges, and hundreds of restaurants. Richman is unrivaled in his ability to market a heart-attack-inducing meat mountain.
Despite the series' long-running popularity, the host chose to stop it in 2012. Many people are still unsure of what happened next. Why did Richman leave the show, only to be replaced by a different host a few years later?
What happened and where did Adam Richman go?
Even while it may appear like eating the world's most delectable meals is a dream job, it seems that hosting Man v. Food wasn't all it was built up to be.
Richman has stated in the years since his departure that he left for a variety of reasons. None of them entailed chronic sickness or death, despite Internet rumors to the contrary.
Even though the show never made Richman sick, his resignation was indeed primarily due to health concerns. Years of eating issues put a strain on his body, which led to him becoming depressed about his weight, according to a 2013 Yahoo News report.
Despite this, Richman has denied rumors that he was forced to resign due to health problems. The former host confessed how much these falsehoods affected him in a 2016 BBC interview.
However, during an episode of the celebrity “Catch Up: Life After That Thing I Did”, he revealed that he was hospitalised once in Zurich, Switzerland after contracting an infection in his moustache which caused his lips to inflate to the size of a banana. He was diagnosed with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an infection that caused by staph bacteria and had become resistant to antibiotics. The infection was located inside of the eye to the outer corner of the lips known as the ‘danger triangle’, the infection could migrate to the cranium which could endanger his life. He had to undergo surgery to remove it and was treated with a course of antibiotics.
Adam Richman controversy on the internet
In 2014, Adam Richman appeared to be on the verge of proving he wasn't just a one-trick pony. He was still buzzing from Man v. Food, and the Travel Channel was developing a new show with him. His career, though, was put on hold after an Instagram post went wrong, according to The Guardian.
Richman remained adamant about getting healthier after the conclusion of Man v. Food. He shared a photo of himself on Instagram, saying that the suit he bought a year ago will need to be altered. He also included the hashtag "#thinspiration," which is when everything started to go wrong.
Commenters quickly chastised him for using the hashtag, pointing out that it was widely used to promote unhealthy and dramatic weight reduction, not healthy goals.
It's also worth emphasizing that this wasn't simply an example of the internet overreacting, as it frequently does. According to Time, social media platforms such as Instagram, Tumblr, and Pinterest had all banned the hashtag #thinspiration, as well as other hashtags that promote self-harm and eating disorders, a few years ago. The National Eating Disorder Association has spoken out about how harmful the concept and imagery can be, but Richman made no mention of it in his post with the illegal hashtag.
When it came to critics, Adam Richman's response was less than ideal.
It was evident from the start that Adam Richman's post had touched a nerve, and it's easy to see why: the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders estimates that 30 million people in the United States suffer from an eating disorder, with someone dying every 62 minutes. Things may have turned out differently if Richman had simply apologized and removed the hashtag. He, on the other hand, did the polar opposite of apologizing.
His remarks just fueled the rage —- in response to one poster, he wrote, don't come at me with childishness when a hashtag throws you into a tizzy of posting comments & 'never watching you again.' Seriously — grab a razor blade & draw a bath. I doubt anyone will miss you."
It wasn't a one-off remark, either. He said to another, "oh eat a bag of s***, dummy. No apology is coming." And that was only the start.
Adam Richman's apology wasn't really an apology
Adam Richman tried a few times to apologize for his reaction to the comments on his post, but the first few posts weren't apologetic. "One of the (now-deleted) tweets stated," the (now-deleted) tweets read "In real life, if you say stuff you regret in anger, you cool down, apologize & move on. If you're a celeb on social media — it becomes a blog."
He tweeted again, this time with a slightly more sincere apology, but he later deleted that tweet as well. He didn't clarify where he was coming from until he stated Good Morning America, saying,"I've long struggled with my body image and have worked very hard to achieve a healthy weight. I'm incredibly sorry to everyone I've hurt."
Richman referred to the incident as "a wake-up call" weeks later, according to The Washington Post. He was presenting the NBC competition show Food Fighters at the time, but despite his publicist's repeated warnings that any inquiries asked of him should be about the new show, it was evident that the Instagram incident would eclipse everything else going on in his professional life.
The Travel Channel canceled the new show they had planned with him as a result of this incident. There were no further specifics provided, and it was unclear what kind of long-term implications his outburst would have.
Man Discovers Food was all set to go. It was canceled just days before its scheduled premiere in July 2014, and it wasn't resurrected until April 2015, when it ultimately aired. There was a second season, although you might not know about it because it was renamed Secret Eats with Adam Richman for the last season.
Another primary reason Adam Richman seemed to vanish for a spell is that he wasn't spending his time in front of the camera; instead, he was on the soccer field.
Most people remember Adam Richman as the guy who does the eating, but he's appeared on numerous series since the end of Man v. Food, demonstrating his culinary prowess.
Later He's also appeared on the Good American Show and has been known to travel and take extended vacations!
