It’s the hottest hot seat on YouTube, and Evans and his business partners are now looking to take “Hot Ones” to the next level after buying out the company that produces the show from BuzzFeed for $82 ...

Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez were special guests on Hot Ones ahead of their joint album release. The host asked questions ...

Hot Ones co-creator and host Sean Evans stopped by the Deadline Studio at SXSW 2025 to celebrate a decade of the hit YouTube series that has redefined celebrity interviews—one spicy wing at a time.

Sean Evans didn’t invent hot wings or celebrity interviews. But he did something smarter—he fused them into a format no one saw coming. In 2015, with a background in journalism and a full-time job at ...

Peter Fisher for The New York Times Or maybe it’s the unchanging, bare-bones set: an all-black liminal space akin to the Looney Tunes void, “a byproduct of us being broke,” said Sean Evans ...

Sean Evans advocated for YouTube's parity with TV, stressing the success of "Hot Ones" and the platform's transformative role in modern media consumption.

Sean Evans’ celebrity guests on “Hot Ones ... and it turns out that that impulse was the right one. Did you focus on music artists originally? What’s the strategy for booking guests?