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Jay Leno is “black and blue” after falling down a 60-foot hill on his method out for dinner.
The previous “Tonight Present” host, who’s 74, suffered vital bruising to the left aspect of his face in the course of the accident on the weekend, he informed reporters forward of a present in Beverly Hills on Monday evening.
Leno, who was carrying a patch over his left eye, informed “Inside Edition” that he had been staying at a Hampton Inn about 30 miles exterior of Pittsburgh on Saturday evening. He took the tumble whereas he walked towards a restaurant near the resort, forward of a efficiency he was doing close by.
Displaying off his accidents on digicam, Leno revealed that he broke his wrist, misplaced a fingernail and is “all black and blue” – on the left-hand aspect of his physique, in addition to his face. He additionally lifted up his patch to disclose that his eye is swollen shut.
In a separate interview on the identical night, Leno informed TMZ that he didn’t have a automobile that evening and that the route that workers on the resort had directed him on would have concerned strolling for a few mile and a half.
So he determined to take a shortcut down a hill as a substitute.
He informed TMZ that he thought: “The hill doesn’t look that steep – about 60, 70 ft. Let me see if I can down there… (he screams) after which I fell down, growth, growth, growth.”
Leno mentioned he “hit a bunch of rocks” however that didn’t cease him from occurring to carry out simply three hours later. He was solely handled in hospital as soon as he was again residence in Los Angeles.
“It isn’t a giant deal, it’s alright,” he informed TMZ.
CNN has reached out to Leno’s representatives for remark.
The autumn comes two years after Leno suffered extreme burns to his face and physique. The star was handled in LA’s Grossman Burn Middle in November 2022 for accidents to his face, chest and fingers that have been the results of a hearth in his residence storage.
Leno, an avid automobile collector, had been working beneath a automobile when he was burned.
Simply months after that incident, he broke his collarbone and two ribs and cracked each kneecaps in a bike collision.
When questioned by TMZ about his run of dangerous luck, Leno mentioned: “The wonderful thing about this age is that you simply don’t be taught by your errors – you simply maintain doing the identical silly issues.”
Leno will probably be acting on Wednesday night at a charity occasion in help of the burns hospital that handled him in 2022.