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Two months after present process surgical procedure for severe burns, Jay Leno is now contending with plenty of damaged bones after being knocked off a motorbike.
The comic and former Tonight Present host informed a Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal columnist on Thursday that he broke his collarbone and two ribs and cracked his kneecaps on January 17.
The November storage fireplace and January wreck each stemmed from his ardour for engaged on classic automobiles.
He suffered burns on his face, fingers and chest in a petroleum fireplace whereas repairing the gasoline line on a classic automobile. Final week, it was a classic bike.
He informed the Evaluate-Journal’s John Katsilometes that he was testing a 1940 bike when he observed the scent of leaking petrol.
“So I turned down a facet avenue and minimize by a car parking zone, and unknown to me, some man had a wire strung throughout the car parking zone however with no flag hanging from it,” Leno, 72, stated.
“So, you realize, I did not see it till it was too late.”
He insisted he was OK and would even be working this weekend, including that the extraordinary protection of the November fireplace made him reluctant to say something within the days since final week’s accident.
Leno took over NBC’s Tonight when longtime host Johnny Carson retired in 1992.
He was succeeded by Conan O’Brien in 2009 however NBC obtained chilly toes when the present’s rankings dropped and introduced Leno again as host in 2010.
He remained within the job till Jimmy Fallon took over in 2014.
Leno turned his love of automobiles right into a CNBC collection, Jay Leno’s Storage, and hosts a revival of the sport present You Wager Your Life.
He was hospitalized for 9 days after the fireplace however was again performing stand-up at a Southern California membership six days after his launch, Individuals reported final 12 months.
