Ed Currie

He graduated from Central Michigan University- "on the seven-year college plan" "drinking with the frat boys"- subsequently becoming a stockbroker; his first day of work after qualifying was Black Monday, when global markets collapsed.

Having struggled with substance abuse as a "functional addict", in 1999 Currie contemplated suicide but instead went to rehab.

He met his wife, Linda, at recovery meetings after moving back to his parents' hometown in South Carolina in 2001.

[8] Currie started the PuckerButt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, South Carolina, in 2003.

The show is an interview which asks guests to eat increasingly spicy hot wings, with "The Last Dab" being the spiciest sauce presented.

Ed Currie bred the Carolina Reaper (shown above) and Pepper X , both world-record holding chili peppers at different points.