Injured again! Ex-Late Night Talk star Jay Leno (72) had a motorcycle accident a few days ago. In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the comedian revealed he’s recovering from a motorcycle accident that left him with multiple fractures. And that’s just months after he suffered second-degree burns in a garage fire at his Los Angeles home in November 2022.
Leno told the magazine that he fell off his motorcycle on January 17: “I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs. I’ve got two broken kneecaps.” – “But I’m fine,” added the star, who returns to Las Vegas in March. “I’m fine, I’m working. I’m going to work this weekend.”
According to Leno, he was on the road testing an old 1940 Indian motorcycle when he noticed the smell of leaking gasoline and decided to stop to investigate. “So I turned down a side street and drove through a parking lot. I didn’t see that someone had stretched a wire across the parking lot with no flag hanging,” he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “So I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just knocked me out and threw me off the bike. The bike kept going.”
The former ‘Tonight Show’ host told the magazine he initially didn’t publicize his accident because there was so much chaos and coverage of the incident in November. “You know, if you get burned, you get that for free,” he said, and then joked, “After that you’re Harrison Ford and you crash planes. You just want to keep the ball flat.”
As People magazine summarizes, in November, Leno and longtime friend Dave Killackey were working on a clogged fuel line in the undercarriage of a 1907 White Steam Car parked in the TV host’s 140,000-square-foot Burbank garage when he found himself suffered severe second degree burns to her face and upper body.
Paramedics arrived within minutes, and the next day Leno was at the Grossman Center, where he was being treated for burns to his face, neck, chest, hands and left arm.
For nine days, Leno, whose 42-year-old wife Mavis slept next to him at the center, underwent two skin grafts to help regenerate new, healthy skin and sessions in hyperbaric chambers to keep tissues oxygenated. Already six days after his release from the center, Leno was back on the stage and performed in comedy
Meanwhile, it has been announced that Jay Leno’s car series “Garage”, which has been a staple of primetime programming on one of NBCUniversal’s TV channels since 2015, will be cancelled. As “The Hollywood Reporter” further reports, the cancellation comes as part of a major program shift by the station, which intends to focus on reality reruns and business documentaries in prime time.
