Jay Leno is a bit worse for put on nowadays, sporting some stunning bruising to his face, an eye fixed 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 approach to dinner, he informed reporters forward of a present Monday evening.
Leno, chatting with Inside Version, stated he’d been staying on the Hampton Inn outdoors 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 a substitute.
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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 digital camera, lifting his eye patch to point out his eye swollen shut, and his wrist wrapped in a solid.
“I fell down. Increase, increase, increase,” he informed 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 along with his Pennsylvania efficiency, simply three hours after he fell. After the present, he stated, he went to the hospital for remedy earlier than flying again house to Los Angeles.
“It’s not that large a deal,” he informed TMZ when requested if he was in ache.
This accident is the newest in a string of significant mishaps for the comic; two years in the past he suffered vital burns to his face, palms and chest after a gasoline hearth erupted whereas he was working beneath one among 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 unhealthy luck, Leno stated: “The wonderful thing about this age is that you simply don’t study by your errors — you simply maintain doing the identical silly issues.”
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