The buyers include an affiliate of Soros Fund Management, progressive podcast company Crooked Media and Mythical Entertainment, the media company founded by the YouTube creators known as Rhett and Link.

BuzzFeed Inc. has sold First We Feast, its food-centered brand behind the popular YouTube interview show Hot Ones, to a group of investors for $82.5 million, ending a months-long search and raising cash to pay down debt.

The sale, to a group that includes the show’s host, Sean Evans, and Soros Fund Management, will allow BuzzFeed to pay down tens of millions of dollars in debt.

BuzzFeed is selling First We Feast, the studio behind 'Hot Ones,' for $82.5 million to investors including Soros Fund Management and Sean Evans.

BuzzFeed Inc. has sold First We Feast, its food-centered brand behind the popular YouTube interview show Hot Ones, to a group of investors for $82.5 million, ending a months-long search and raising cash to pay down debt.

BuzzFeed sold First We Feast, the studio best known for producing “Hot Ones,” a popular interview show where celebrities eat a series of increasingly spicy chicken wings.

Buzzfeed has sold the studio behind the hit YouTube series Hot Ones to host Sean Evans and a score of investors for an astronomical sum, Variety reported. On Thursday, Buzzfeed announced that it was selling the massively popular and surprisingly influential hot-chicken interview show to

Sean Evans has hosted the popular celebrity interview series since March 2015 Hot Ones host Sean Evans is now a key stakeholder in First We Feast, the studio that produces his popular celebrity interview series.

Buzzfeed is getting out of the hot wings game. The media company has sold First We Feast, the studio behind the viral YouTube series "Hot Ones," to a group of investors that include the production company's founder Chris Schonberger and the host of "Hot Ones" Sean Evans as well as Crooked Media,