If ESPN wants to gain back the viewers it will be missing due to Joey Chestnut’s absence at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, they can get them all back with a quick call.
The 16-time champion is currently barred from the competition after inking a deal with Impossible Foods, a rival of Nathan’s, which has long sponsored the Fourth of July spectacle.
Of course, it’s impossible to replace the GOAT, whose 76 dogs and buns from the 2021 contest remain a world record.
Paige Spiranac’s personal record is 70 hot dogs shy of Joey Chestnut’s. (Getty Images)
But Paige Spiranac is up for the challenge.
“I’m available to fill in,” the influencer said on X, formerly Twitter
She then wrote that her “record is 6.5 hotdogs in 10 minutes.” Funny enough, someone replied, “We’d all watch.” That response, at the time of publishing, was at over 150 likes.
Ask and you shall receive.
Spiranac posted earlier Wednesday the “video proof” of her all-time record.
Spiranac is a former golf pro who analyzes the game on social media; she even gave her U.S. Open picks in a low-cut shirt, much to the delight of many fans.
Chestnut said Tuesday he learned he was “banned” from this year’s event on social media.
I was gutted to learn from the media that after 19 years Im [sic] banned from the Nathan’s July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest,” Chestnut wrote. “I love competing in that event, I love celebrating America with my fans all over this great country on the 4th and I have been training to defend my title.
“To set the record straight, I do not have a contract with MLE or Nathans and they are looking to change the rules from past years as it relates to other partners I can work with. This is apparently the basis on which I’m being banned, and it doesn’t impact the July 4th event.
