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Jay Leno is constant to crack jokes about his “brand new face” about 4 months after his face caught on fireplace on Nov. 2022 throughout an incident along with his automobile at his Los Angeles house. The 72-year-old former Tonight Show host appeared on the March 1 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show and gave the impression to be in nice spirits after Kelly Clarkson, 40, advised him he was trying “great”. With a smile, he replied, “This is a brand-new face! It is, it’s unbelievable.”
Jay had missed his final scheduled look on Kelly’s NBC speak present as a result of accident, which occurred as he was engaged on his 1907 White Steam Car with a buddy and prompted him to obtain third-degree burns. “What happened, I was working on a car and I got a full face of gasoline and it caught fire. And I had been eating a flaming hot Dorito and when I bit into it, it set my face on fire,” he defined. “It was pretty bad,” he stated, getting extra critical.
Before lengthy, although, he reverted to his light-hearted and foolish self. “You think there’d be a zipper here or something,” he stated when Kelly stated “you can’t tell at all” that he acquired such extreme facial burns. “No, this is like a brand new face. Only for the second time in my career am I the new face of comedy,” he joked, inflicting Kelly to crack up.
The star endured an eight-day keep within the hospital following the scary accident and admitted he solely missed two comedy exhibits he had scheduled on the time. “It was a great way to burn calories,” he added, joking as soon as extra. “First you burn off the calories. Then you go on a crash diet on your motorcycle and I dropped 20 pounds.”
News of the freak accident circulated in the future after it occurred on Nov. 14, 2022. While followers had been involved, the comic appeared optimistic about his restoration. “I got some serious burns from a gasoline fire. I am ok. Just need a week or two to get back on my feet,” he advised the Daily Mail in an announcement. Alhough the Dorito story he shared on The Kelly Clarkson present was humorous, a Dorito chip didn’t really trigger Jay’s burns. As famous above, he was working his automobile with a pal to deal with a clogged gasoline line, which ended up being a gasoline leak. He was by chance sprayed with gasoline, which then caught on fireplace as a result of he was positioned so shut o the automobile’s pilot gentle.