Jay Leno Details His Personal Hot Wheels Experience
Jay Leno is connected the mend.
The former Tonight Show host is dealing with aggregate injuries aft falling down the broadside of a steep elevation portion connected his mode to meal earlier a caller show successful Pittsburgh.
"I'm a small bushed up," helium told Inside Edition. "Fell 60 feet—boom, boom, boom, boom."
The 74-year-old added that helium broke his wrist and "lost my nail connected the finger."
"I americium each achromatic and bluish from 60 feet of hitting rocks," noting that 1 of the rocks "hit maine successful the eye," which necessitated Jay wearing an oculus spot and near him with a swollen eye.
He told the outlet that helium checked retired his injuries successful the edifice bathroom, but inactive made it connected signifier for his show and would beryllium checking successful with a doc soon.
Unfortunately for the comedian—who has been married to Mavis Leno since 1980—this is acold from the archetypal scary mishap he's experienced successful caller years.
In November 2022, Jay sustained burns from a gasoline fire which occurred portion helium was moving connected 1 of his galore classical cars.
"The substance enactment was clogged truthful I was underneath it," he explained on Today a period aft the accident. "It sounded clogged and I said, 'Blow immoderate aerial done the line.' And past suddenly, boom, I got a look afloat of state and past the aviator airy jumped and my look caught connected fire."
He instantly yelled to his friend Dave Killackey, "'Dave, I'm connected fire.' And Dave was like, 'OK.' And I was like, 'No, Dave, I'm connected fire.'"
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As Dave told Today, "I couldn't adjacent spot his face. He downplays it all, but I'm telling you, helium was truly engulfed. I couldn't spot his face. It was a partition of fire."
Jay suffered yet different mishap successful January 2023 when helium broke his collarbone, ribs and cracked his kneecaps aft getting knocked disconnected his motorcycle.
"I turned down a broadside thoroughfare and chopped done a parking lot," helium told the Las Vegas Review-Journalafter the incident, "and unbeknownst to me, immoderate feline had a ligament strung crossed the parking batch but with nary emblem hanging from it."
He continued, "So, you know, I didn't spot it until it was excessively late. It conscionable clothesline maine and, boom, knocked maine disconnected the bike. The motorcycle kept going, and you cognize however that works out."
But Jay isn't the lone idiosyncratic successful Hollywood to beryllium the unfortunate of a freak accident. For more, support reading.
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