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Canadian bodybuilder, competitive eater, and YouTuber From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Czerwinski (born Piotr Czerwinski;[3] November 30, 1985), better known by his stage name Furious Pete,[4] is a Canadian competitive eater and YouTuber. Czerwinski currently holds fourteen Guinness World Records in eating.
Furious Pete | ||||||||||
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Born | Piotr Czerwinski November 30, 1985[1] | |||||||||
Nationality | Polish Canadian | |||||||||
Other names | Furious Pete | |||||||||
Alma mater | McMaster University | |||||||||
Occupation(s) | Competitive eater Bodybuilder | |||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||
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Years active | 2006–present | |||||||||
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Subscribers | 5.08 million[2] | |||||||||
Total views | 1.05 billion[2] | |||||||||
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Last updated: November 25, 2022 |
Peter Czerwinski was born November 30, 1985, in Toronto.[4] Both his parents had health issues.[5] As a teenager, he battled against anorexia nervosa,[4] and was hospitalized because of it at Toronto's The Hospital for Sick Children. Bodybuilding was a major factor in his recovery.[4]
Czerwinski has a slower digestion rate than the average person's.[4] His daily diet comprises nine balanced meals and he exercises daily.[4] Czerwinski became aware of his talent in eating after managing to beat an eating record. Thereafter, he decided to take on more eating-related challenges and post them on YouTube.[5] Having participated in more than 90 eating competitions,[4] Czerwinski holds fourteen Guinness World Records in competitive eating, including that for eating a whole raw onion in 43.53 seconds,[6] seventeen bananas in 2 minutes, fifteen hamburgers in 10 minutes,[4] 750 millilitres of olive oil in 60 seconds,[4] and 17 Jaffa Cakes in sixty seconds.[7] He also participated in season one of Canada's Got Talent. For his performance, he ate 5 hard boiled eggs, 3 pieces of Canadian bacon, 2 bananas, and a bag of milk in 51 seconds.[8] However, he did not make it past the Toronto Auditions.
A direct-to-DVD documentary film, The Story of Furious Pete, chronicling Czerwinski's life, screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[9]
The Furious "Pete"[10] – which consists of 20 pieces of bacon and 20 pieces of cheese, alongside a five-pound platter of fries – is named after him, after Czerwinski became the first person in 1,500 attempts to finish it.[5]
Czerwinski has successfully battled testicular cancer twice in the past, both times going into remission. On February 16 in 2017, he uploaded a video onto YouTube where he stated he was yet again battling cancer and it was testicular cancer, making this his third time fighting.[11] In January 2019, Czerwinski stated that the testicular cancer returned and had his second testicle surgically removed, requiring him to undergo testosterone replacement therapy for the rest of his life.[12]
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