Jay Leno shows off his ‘brand new face’ after suffering third-degree burns

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horrific car fire accident on Nov. 12 that left him with third-degree burns on his face, chest, and hands.The 72-year-old was met with loud applause from the audience as he sat down to chat with the “Since U Been Gone” singer about his injuries.“You look great though,” Clarkson told Leno, to which he replied, “This is a brand-new face.”“It is, it’s unbelievable,” Leno continued. “What happened, I was working on a car and I got a full face of gasoline and it caught fire.

And I had been eating a flaming hot Dorito and when I bit into it, it set my face on,” he quipped.“It was interesting. It was all third-degree burns, it was pretty bad.

It was pretty bad.”“You can’t tell at all,” Clarkson chimed in.“No, you think there’d be a zipper here or something,” he joked. “No, this is like a brand-new face.”“Only for the second time in my career am I the new face of comedy,” he added.In December, the funnyman 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 underneath it,” he said of working on the vintage car — alongside close friend David Killackey — during a talk with “Today” anchor Hoda Kotb. “It sounded clogged and I said, ‘Blow some air through the line,’ and so he did.”Leno said the fuel line made a noise, “and suddenly, boom, I got a face full of gas.