Two months after undergoing surgery for serious burns, Jay Leno is now contending with a variety of damaged bones right after staying knocked off a motorcycle.
The comedian and former “Tonight Show” host told a Las Vegas Assessment-Journal columnist Thursday that he broke his collarbone and two ribs and cracked his kneecaps on Jan. 17.
The November garage fire and January wreck both equally stemmed from his passion for doing work on vintage automobiles. He suffered burns on his experience, arms and upper body in a gasoline hearth even though fixing the gas line on a vintage auto. Previous week, it was a vintage motorcycle.
He advised the Review-Journal’s John Katsilometes he was testing a 1940 bike when he seen the scent of leaking gas.
“So I turned down a aspect avenue and lower by a parking large amount, and unbeknownst to me, some person had a wire strung throughout the parking whole lot but with no flag hanging from it,” Leno, 72, explained. “So, you know, I did not see it right until it was also late.”
The Tv set host and comic was operating in his Los Angeles garage when a person of the cars and trucks burst into flames, a supply shut to Jay Leno confirmed to NBC Information.
He insisted he was Alright and would even be doing the job this weekend, adding that the intense coverage of the November fire produced him unwilling to say just about anything in the times because very last week’s incident.
Leno took more than NBC’s “Tonight” when longtime host Johnny Carson retired in 1992. He was succeeded by Conan O’Brien in 2009, but NBC received cold feet when the show’s ratings dropped and introduced Leno again as host in 2010. He remained in the position right until Jimmy Fallon took in excess of in 2014.
Leno turned his adore of cars into a CNBC collection, “Jay Leno’s Garage,” and hosts a revival of the match exhibit “You Guess Your Lifestyle.”
He was hospitalized for nine days soon after the hearth but was again accomplishing stand-up at a Southern California club six days after his release.
