Jay Leno will all the time present up for a great trigger!
One week in the past, the comic, 74, fell down a steep hill in Pennsylvania, badly bruising his face and physique and breaking his wrist. His accidents had been nonetheless seen on Thursday, Nov. 21, when he was noticed in Los Angeles. Nonetheless, on Friday, Nov. 22, he appeared to cowl his bruises from the autumn with make-up whereas internet hosting a charity occasion on the Wynn Las Vegas.
The Tonight Present former host traveled out of California to host the inaugural amfAR Las Vegas benefit event, the place Sylvester Stallone and his spouse, Jennifer Flavin Stallone, had been honored with amfAR’s Award of Inspiration in “recognition of their beneficiant assist of amfAR’s lifesaving work, along with quite a few different causes associated to well being, training, and ladies’s rights,” a press release states.
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The night time additionally featured performances from Diana Ross and Amber Riley. Leno attended the occasion in a blue swimsuit paired with black gown sneakers.
He informed TMZ earlier this week that he fell whereas making an attempt to stroll to a close-by restaurant on the backside of his resort, which, in line with Inside Edition, was a Hampton Inn about 30 miles outdoors of Pittsburgh.
Leno had a present at the Palace Theatre in Greenhouse, Penn., on Friday, Nov. 15, and later carried out at the Yaamava’ Theater in Highland, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 16.
“To get to [the restaurant], I didn’t have a automotive, so that you needed to stroll a couple of mile and a half round. I stated, ‘Properly, the hill doesn’t look that steep. It’s about 60-70 ft. Let me see if I can go down the hill,’ I fell down. Increase, growth, growth. I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knocked me within the eye,” he informed TMZ.
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He additionally informed Inside Version that the incident precipitated him to interrupt his wrist and lose one of many nails on his finger, leaving the whole left facet of his physique bruised.
CBS News spoke with Gary Latshaw, the proprietor of Latshaw Productions, the corporate that placed on his present on Friday, who recalled seeing Leno following the incident.
“I used to be pondering, ‘I have to name an ambulance’ as a result of I assumed, no matter occurred, it was a extreme fall,” stated Latshaw.
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Latshaw stated that it “was inspiring to observe” Leno, who beforehand suffered second-degree and third-degree burns in November 2022, nonetheless placed on a present.
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“He did not need to disappoint individuals, together with individuals who had been there to satisfy him backstage. He might have canceled that. He cancelled nothing. I stand amazed. I actually do. It was inspiring to observe,” he stated.
