#Buddy valastro hand full#

I went back there, and I dozed off for a second, and it caught my hand between a fork, and it just went ‘Boom!’ It blew through my hand, and then it rolled it.” “I was trying to fix my bowling alley, in my house,” Valastro explains of the incident. The accident itself, however, was anything but lucky. “I got so frigging lucky,” Valastro continues, referring to his recovery from a freak bowling alley accident in September, which has forced him to undergo four surgeries and an intense physical therapy regimen to regain most of the movement and feeling in his hand.

#Buddy valastro hand full#

“Look, I can make a full fist, I can go fully straight, and I’ve got my strength,” he says, clenching and unclenching his bandaged right hand, before extending it to grasp mine with a firm grip. In this semi-private setting, with a member of the media who also has been vaccinated, the celebrity chef is also excited to shake hands - for a very different reason. But I’m trying to be as normal as you possibly can during a pandemic.” I’m vaccinated, so I feel a little bit better, and I do a lot of hand washing and sanitizing. “I’ve been doing it with my mask on, you know. “I’ve been taking a lot of pictures with fans,” Valastro said of the crowds that have continued to flock to the celebrity chef’s local establishments. Through the windows, he could watch the people standing in a socially-distanced line to purchase treats from his other Venetian/Palazzo business, Carlo’s Bakery. “To be able to come out here, and actually see life, and see people get back to normal, enjoying the restaurant and enjoying Vegas, (I’m) teary-eyed,” the “Cake Boss” star reflected on Wednesday, seated at Buddy V’s Ristorante in The Grand Canal Shoppes. (Bill Milne)įor Buddy Valastro, returning to Las Vegas last week was a very big deal. Buddy Vs Ristorante in The Grand Canal Shoppes.