Jay Leno looks unrecognizable as he emerges with his ‘brand new face’ after surviving two terrifying accidents

TV legend Jay Leno suffered severe facial burns in a garage fire in November 2022. Two months later, he broke several bones after falling off a bike in January 2023.

Nearly 20 months after his second accident, Jay Leno attended the 2024 Daytime Beauty Awards on September 30. The 74-year-old comedian presented his surgeon, Dr. Peter Grossman, with an award for excellence in medicine.

AND! News she chatted with Leno on the red carpet on the Daytime Beauty Awards. The former host of “The Tonight Show” told the network, “It’s good. Everything is tremendous. I can not complain.”

Additionally, Jay Leno joked concerning the serious accidents he experienced between November 2022 and January 2023. He hoped that his “next chapter” wouldn’t include “another accident.”

In November 2022, Leno was in his garage in Burbank, California, when a gasoline fire broke out. The TV star suffered third-degree burns to his face, chest and hands.

He was hospitalized on the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles and required several surgeries. According to Page sixDr. Grossman confirmed that Leno underwent a transplant procedure to reconstruct his face.

“My recovery took nine days. I missed two days of labor, so it wasn’t bad,” Leno explained to E! Daytime Beauty Awards News. “Better than the face I had, so I’ll take it.”

Jay Leno previously discussed the garage fire and his “brand new face” during an appearance on a March 2023 episode of the daytime “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”

“I was working on the car, I poured gasoline on my face and the car caught fire,” Leno revealed to Kelly Clarkson. He then joked, “I was eating Flamin’ Hot Doritos and when I bit into it, my face was on fire.”

When Clarkson mentioned that she didn’t notice any differences within the guy’s face, Leno pointed to his chin and said, “You’d think there would be a zipper or something, but no.”

In addition to a new face, Leno also received a new ear. Dana Carvey and David Spade March 2023 issue “Fly on the Wall” the podcast included Leno saying: “When you’re on fire, your ears are like paper. They are so thin they just lift up.”

In June 2023, he talked on CNN about getting a new ear. The Emmy winner said the transformation was unnoticeable due to her “very good” doctor.

Jay Leno also turned to Dr. Peter Grossman after a 2023 motorcycle accident that left him with a broken collarbone, two broken ribs and cracked kneecaps.

“I was riding my motorcycle and a guy put a wire across the road and boom, he ripped my face off,” Leno stated while presenting Grossman with the Daytime Beauty Awards, in accordance with E! News.

He continued: “I called Dr. Grossman and said, ‘Listen, I need another face. That second face you got was great, but I need another one…” So I assume I’m officially a two-faced bastard now.

Jay Leno hosted “The Tonight Show” on NBC from 1992 to 2009. The Emerson College graduate also dabbles in motorcycles and classic cars within the digital series “Jay Leno’s Garage” on YouTube.