Jay Leno Jokes He Has A ‘Brand New Face’ After Suffering 3rd Degree Burns In Fire: Watch

Jay Leno is continuing to ace jokes astir his “brand caller face” astir 4 months aft his look caught connected occurrence successful Nov. 2022 during an incidental with his car astatine his Los Angeles home. The 72-year-old erstwhile Tonight Show big appeared connected the March 1 occurrence of The Kelly Clarkson Show and seemed to beryllium successful precocious spirits aft Kelly Clarkson, 40, told him helium was looking “great”. With a smile, helium replied, “This is simply a brand-new face! It is, it’s unbelievable.”

Jay had missed his past scheduled quality on Kelly’s NBC speech show owed to the accident, which occurred arsenic helium was moving connected his 1907 White Steam Car with a buddy and caused him to person third-degree burns. “What happened, I was moving connected a car and I got a afloat look of gasoline and it caught fire. And I had been eating a flaming blistery Dorito and erstwhile I spot into it, it acceptable my look connected fire,” helium explained. “It was beauteous bad,” helium said, getting much serious.

Before long, though, helium reverted to his light-hearted and silly self. “You deliberation there’d beryllium a zipper present oregon something,” helium said erstwhile Kelly said “you can’t archer astatine all” that helium received specified terrible facial burns. “No, this is similar a marque caller face. Only for the 2nd clip successful my vocation americium I the caller look of comedy,” helium joked, causing Kelly to ace up.

Jay Leno was photographed looking arsenic if thing happened conscionable weeks aft his look caught occurrence (Photo: ShotbyJuliann / BACKGRID)

The prima endured an eight-day enactment successful the hospital pursuing the scary mishap and admitted helium lone missed 2 drama shows helium had scheduled astatine the time. “It was a large mode to pain calories,” helium added, joking erstwhile more. “First you pain disconnected the calories. Then you spell connected a clang fare connected your motorcycle and I dropped 20 pounds.”

News of the freak accident circulated 1 time aft it happened connected Nov. 14, 2022. While fans were concerned, the comedian seemed optimistic astir his recovery. “I got immoderate superior burns from a gasoline fire. I americium ok. Just request a week oregon 2 to get backmost connected my feet,” helium told the Daily Mail successful a statement. Alhough the Dorito communicative helium shared connected The Kelly Clarkson amusement was humorous, a Dorito spot did not really origin Jay’s burns. As noted above, helium was moving his car with a person to code a clogged substance line, which ended up being a substance leak. He was accidentally sprayed with gasoline, which past caught connected occurrence due to the fact that helium was positioned truthful adjacent o the car’s aviator light.

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