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

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

The Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives star, 56, took reporter Graham Bensinger on a tour of his 42-acre Northern California home for In Depth with Graham Bensinger.

The Food Network star noted how they preserved historic aspects of the property, like a barn built by a gold mine owner, and added personalized details, like hedges carved into the letters “H” and “R.”

Guy and Ryder Fieri.

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The letters represent his two sons, Hunter, 28, and Ryder, 18, who he shares with his wife, Lori. Guy, 56, showed Bensinger a detail of the arrangement, which shares a design with an arm tattoo and a stamp they use for cattle.

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

Guy Fieri on ‘In Depth With Graham Bensinger’.

In Depth with Graham Bensinger

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

“Ryder only found out yesterday. We had a big meeting about the finances and my lawyer was here and he said, ‘Well, you understand, Ryder, that the houses that your grandmother lives in and your brother live in, you own those houses,’ he said.

He continued, recreating the San Diego State University student’s reaction, “And he kind of played it off, and I said, ‘You don’t own them now! They’re in a trust and I’m running it and I’m alive!’”

Guy Fieri with nephew Jules, sons Ryder and Hunter.

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

The TV personality has been candid about her ethics in giving money to her children.

Guy Fieri celebrates his son and ‘right-hand man’ Hunter on his 28th birthday: ‘one of a kind’

In December, he said Fox News that he doesn’t plan to give his sons his money without them getting two degrees.

Guy learned this tough love mentality from his late father: “I told them the same thing my dad told me. My dad says, ‘When I die, you can expect me to die penniless and you’ll pay for the funeral’.”

“And I told my guys, ‘You’re not going to get any of what we’ve been … what I’ve been building unless you come and take it from me,'” he added.

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