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March 2, 2023 | 5:25 a.m
Jay Leno joked he had a “brand new face” during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Wednesday.
The former ‘Tonight Show’ host suffered a horrific car fire accident on November 12, leaving third-degree burns on his face, chest and hands.
The 72-year-old was met with a loud round of applause from the crowd as he sat down to chat with the “Since U Been Gone” singer about his injuries.
“You look amazing,” Clarkson told Leno, to which he replied, “That’s a brand new face.”
“It is, it’s amazing,” Leno continued. “What happened, I was working on a car and I got a full face with gas and it caught fire. And I had eaten a flaming hot Dorito and when I bit into it my face opened up,” he joked.
“It was interesting. It was all third degree burns, it was pretty bad. It was pretty bad.”
“You can’t tell at all,” Clarkson interjected.
“No, you think there’s a zipper here or something,” he joked. “No, that’s like a brand new face.”
“It’s only the second time in my career that I’m the new face of comedy,” he added.
Jay Leno said he was working on a car when gasoline started a fire in his face. Weiss Eubanks/NBC Universal
In December, the prankster and car fanatic revealed what caused the fiery explosion in his garage.
“It was a 1907 white steam car. The fuel line was clogged, so I was under it,” he said of working on the classic car – along with close friend David Killackey – during a conversation with Today host Hoda Kotb. “It sounded blocked and I said, ‘Blow some air through the line,’ and he did.”
Leno said the fuel line made a noise, “and all of a sudden, boom, I got a face full of gas. And then the pilot light came on and my face caught fire.”
Jay Leno joked that you’d “think there was a zipper” on his face, as Kelly Clarkson confirmed how well his face had recovered. The Kelly Clarkson Show
Fortunately, Leno said Killackey acted quickly.
“I said to my friend, I said, ‘Dave, I’m on fire.’ And Dave says, ‘All right.’ I said, ‘No, Dave, I’m on fire.’ And then: ‘Oh my God.’ Dave, my friend, pulled me out and jumped on me and kind of smothered the fire,” he recalled.
Leno was taken to the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles, where he was treated for third-degree burns during a 10-day stay. Leno also received skin grafts and another surgical procedure.
Jay Leno is seen with the medical team at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles who treated his facial burn on The Kelly Clarkson Show. Weiss Eubanks/NBC Universal
His recovery was compounded just weeks after the ordeal when he fractured multiple bones in a freak motorcycle accident.
Leno revealed details of the second accident after the Las Vegas Review-Journal asked him about the car fire.
“That was the first accident, okay?” he said last month. “Then just last week I was pushed off my motorcycle. So I have a broken collarbone. I have two broken ribs. I have two broken kneecaps.”
During his performance, Leno and Clarkson gifted the three nurses treating the talk show host a three-day vacation in the Bahamas.
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