Jay Leno is a bit worse for put on lately, sporting some stunning bruising to his face, a watch patch and a damaged wrist.
The accidents got here when the 74-year-old former late-night host fell down a 60-foot hill whereas on his method to dinner, he instructed reporters forward of a present Monday evening.
Leno, chatting with Inside Version, stated he’d been staying on the Hampton Inn exterior Pittsburgh on Saturday when he determined to enterprise out for dinner forward of a close-by present he was performing that evening.
Whereas workers had given him instructions to the restaurant, he stated the stroll would have been about two-and-a-half kilometres, so he determined to take a shortcut down a steep hill as an alternative.
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That’s when he stated he took a tumble, leaving him with a damaged wrist, a misplaced fingernail and substantial bruising on the left facet of his physique.
He confirmed off his accidents to the digicam, lifting his eye patch to indicate his eye swollen shut, and his wrist wrapped in a forged.
“I fell down. Increase, growth, growth,” he instructed TMZ in a separate interview, explaining that he, “rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knocked me within the eye.”
Regardless of the severity of the autumn and accidents, Leno solid forward together with his Pennsylvania efficiency, simply three hours after he fell. After the present, he stated, he went to the hospital for therapy earlier than flying again dwelling to Los Angeles.
“It’s not that huge a deal,” he instructed TMZ when requested if he was in ache.
This accident is the newest in a string of great mishaps for the comic; two years in the past he suffered vital burns to his face, arms and chest after a gasoline fireplace erupted whereas he was working beneath one in every of his classic vehicles at his California storage.
He underwent a surgical excision and grafting process to assist deal with the burns and was in hospital for 10 days.
And, simply two months later in January 2023, he revealed {that a} bike accident left him with a damaged collarbone and ribs, in addition to two cracked kneecaps.
When questioned by TMZ about his run of dangerous luck, Leno stated: “The beauty of this age is that you just don’t study by your errors — you simply maintain doing the identical silly issues.”
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