The unique energy of the late Steve Harwell and chef Guy Fieri might be best quantified as in-your-face-but-here-to-have-a-good-time rockstar vibes. It’s easy to see how many people found the likeness between the “Walking on the Sun” singer and the “Flavortown” restaurateur to be intriguing. As one Twitter user put it back in 2018, “#TheBigMysteryIs whether Guy Fieri and Steve Harwell were separated at birth.” Some people were still making that mistake in 2023, as another person tweeted after Harwell’s death: “I was today years old when I found out Guy Fieri was NOT the lead singer of Smash Mouth … Prayers up to the *actual* singer, Steve Harwell.”
Conspiracy theorists were able to put the idea that the two were actually the same person to rest when Fieri and Harwell struck up a friendship and appeared in public together. The chef and musician both lived in the San Francisco Bay area at one time. The two were at the opening of Fieri’s restaurant Johnny Garlic’s in 2011, where Harwell called the chef “a dear friend of mine.”
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On social media, there are several photos of Fieri and Harwell hanging out over the years — in 2018, they snapped a selfie with Greg Camp, Harwell’s fellow Smash Mouth member, after a concert. They were also captured barbecuing outside in a 2019 photo shared on Smash Mouth’s Twitter.
