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 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 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,

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

Hot Ones” is going solo. BuzzFeed announced a deal to sell First We Feast, the studio behind the popular YouTube chicken-wing-eating celebrity talk show “Hot Ones,” for $82.5 million in cash to a group of investors.