- Content: Bruised Jay Leno Performed After Fall: ‘Tumbling Down a Hill’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Jay Leno is recovering from a fall.
The former talk show host tumbled 60 feet down a hill near a Pennsylvania hotel and suffered a broken wrist and severe bruising. He’s taking his usual lighthearted approach to the incident.
“I was tumbling down a hill,” Leno explained on Tim Conway Jr.’s show. The former TONIGHT SHOW host wanted to go to a restaurant that was at the bottom of the hill but quickly regretted his decision to walk to it.
“But the restaurant’s right there at the bottom of the hill. Why can’t I just go down the hill? I said, ‘I’ll be fine,’” he said, recounting his thought process. “I take two steps and — doh! doh!”
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“As I’m rolling down the hill, out of the corner of my eye, I see these two older ladies, about my age, one of them says ‘That looks like Jay Leno rolling down a hill.’ The other one goes ‘Oh why would he be on a hill here?’ And then boom, I land in front of them, I’ve got blood all over me. And they go ‘Are you Jay Leno?’ ‘Hi girls! How are you?’”
Despite the accident, Leno still went to perform that night. USA Today reported, “Leno went ahead with his performance in Pennsylvania on Saturday, just three hours after the accident. He told TMZ he went to the hospital for his injuries after returning to Los Angeles.”
Leno joked with TMZ, “The great thing about this age, you don’t learn by your mistakes. You just keep doing the same stupid thing.”
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