For the third 12 months in a row, Jay Leno is recovering from a nasty harm. This time, the perpetrator was a steep hill that the 74-year-old comic had misjudged.
Leno was heading out for dinner just a few hours earlier than his Friday present on the Palace Theater in Pittsburgh when he took a shortcut — sadly, one which left him rolling 60 toes down a hill and hitting a number of rocks alongside the best way, he mentioned . TMZ Monday when he arrived on the Comedy for Koby occasion in Beverly Hills.
“I fell, simply growth, growth, growth,” he mentioned, laughing at himself and lifting his eye patch to disclose an in depth bruise.
In addition to hurting his eye, Leno broke his wrist and misplaced a nail, he mentioned Internal edition: “I’m all black and blue.”
Despite the accident, the previous host of “The Tonight Show” continued his present as scheduled. In photo launched from the Pittsburgh workplace, Leno might be seen sporting an eye fixed patch. When you have got 2,600 individuals ready for you, he instructed TMZ, “The present should go on.”
Leno was later handled for his accidents upon returning to Los Angeles, the place he additionally went forward with a Saturday present on the Yaamava’ Theater close to San Bernardino.
A consultant for Leno didn’t instantly reply to The Times’ request for remark Tuesday.
Early final 12 months, Leno crashed his motorbike and ended up with a damaged collarbone, two damaged ribs and two damaged kneecaps.
“But I’m tremendous!” he mentioned to Las Vegas Review Journal in the mean time. “I’m working this weekend.”
Just two months earlier, nearly precisely two years in the past, the “Jay Leno’s Garage” star was handled for second- and third-degree burns sustained whereas engaged on an previous automobile in his Burbank storage. Leno’s pal Dave Killackey, who was within the storage with him, later recounted the incident Todaysaying: “He downplays all the things, however I inform you he was actually overwhelmed. I could not see his face. It was a wall of fireplace.”
“The beauty of this age is that you do not be taught out of your errors,” he joked to TMZ Monday evening. “You maintain doing the identical silly factor.”
