{"id":1775162,"date":"2022-12-14T13:49:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775162"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:49:23","slug":"jay-leno-recalls-the-moment-his-face-caught-on-fire-in-first-tv-interview-since-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jay-leno-recalls-the-moment-his-face-caught-on-fire-in-first-tv-interview-since-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Leno Recalls The Moment His \u2018Face Caught On Fire\u2019 In First TV Interview Since Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjay-leno-recalls-the-moment-his-face-caught-on-fire-in-first-tv-interview-since-accident%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775162&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former \u201cTonight Show\u201d host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jay-leno\">Jay Leno<\/a> sat down for his first televised interview since the freak accident that resulted in third-degree burns to his face last month.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">comedian<\/a> joked about the November 12 incident and aftermath while speaking with NBC News host Hoda Kotb on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\">The Today Show<\/a>\u201d Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leno said his face was covered in gasoline and was burned while he was in a garage in the Los Angeles area working on one of his vintage cars along with his friend Dave Killackey, who helped extinguish the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fuel line was clogged so I was underneath it,\u201d Leno <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/jay-leno-first-interview-details-burn-injuries-garage-fire\/507-9002c823-f380-459e-9b50-65f7065506a3\">said<\/a> in the interview. \u201cIt sounded clogged and I said, \u2018Blow some air through the line,\u2019 and so he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He remembers hearing a noise right before the accident. \u201cAnd suddenly, boom, I got a face full of gas. And then the pilot light jumped and my face caught on fire,\u201d the comedian continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to my friend, I said, \u2018Dave, I\u2019m on fire.\u2019 And Dave\u2019s like, \u2018All right.\u2019 I said, \u2018No, Dave, I\u2019m on fire.\u2019 And then, \u2018Oh, my God.\u2019 Dave, my friend, pulled me out and jumped on top of me and kind of smothered the fire,\u201d Leno said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t even see his face. He downplays it all\u2026it was a wall of fire,\u201d Killackey told Kotb. \u201cI grabbed him by the head and I pulled his head into my chest\u2026started to smother the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next, Killackey remembers telling Leno to put cold water on his face while working to control the car fire. \u201cIt was horrific; it was a scary thing,\u201d Killackey said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t take a genius to figure out: call 911.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leno previously said he wasn\u2019t keen to complain about what happened to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to joke about it. There\u2019s nothing worse than whiny celebrities. If you joke about it, people laugh along with you,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jay-leno-electric-cars-space-accident-11670600948\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight days later, I had a brand new face,\u201d Leno said before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/theres-nothing-worse-than-whiny-celebrities-jay-leno-jokes-refuses-to-complain-about-burn-accident\">cracking a joke<\/a>. \u201cAnd it\u2019s better than what was there before,\u201d he went on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut really, it was an accident, that\u2019s all,\u201d Leno said. \u201cAnybody who works with their hands on a regular basis is going to have an accident at some point. If you play football, you get a concussion or a broken leg. Anything you do, there\u2019s a risk factor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leno\u2019s doctor, plastic surgeon Dr. Peter Grossman, said the former late night host was \u201cdefinitely an outlier in terms of how well he\u2019s healed considering the severity of his injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comedian said it\u2019s all about perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look like me, you don\u2019t really worry about what you look like,\u201d he said. \u201cLook if I\u2019m George Clooney, it\u2019s going to be a huge problem. \u2026 They said it would be all right. My attitude is I trust people who are the best to do what they have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also cracked another joke, saying, \u201cThe most expensive part of the whole operation was the gasoline. We\u2019re in California. It\u2019s seven bucks a gallon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former \u201cTonight Show\u201d host Jay Leno sat down for his first televised interview since the freak accident that resulted in third-degree burns to his face last month. The comedian joked about the November 12 incident and aftermath while speaking with NBC News host Hoda Kotb on \u201cThe Today Show\u201d Wednesday.\u00a0 Leno said his face was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1775165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8151,3656,6202,4378,3655,6234,8156,8153,5616,8800,6195],"class_list":["post-1775162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-accident","tag-caught","tag-daily","tag-face","tag-fire","tag-interview","tag-jay","tag-leno","tag-moment","tag-recalls","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}