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.

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.

First We Feast, the food and pop culture brand behind the YouTube show, was sold to a group of investors, including “Hot Ones” host Sean Evans, Crooked Media and the Soros Fund.

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

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.

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 said on Thursday it has sold First We Feast, creator of YouTube's popular talk show 'Hot Ones', to a group led by Soros Fund Management affiliate for $82.5 million, as the struggling media company faces a cash crunch.

And now "Hot Ones" — the show where celebrities answer questions while eating increasingly spicy chicken wings — is going to be owned by … the investor George Soros and his family. There's a bit going on here.