Jimmy Kimmel reveals scary Fourth of July BBQ injury: "There was a massive explosion in my face"

ET Canada

 “I haven’t told anybody about this but on July 4th I did a very stupid thing. I turned the gas on the grill and then I went for a little walk for matches," Kimmel told Ellen DeGeneres, according to ET Canada. “Then when I came back I thought I should probably open the lid maybe air this thing out, maybe turn it off and start over again. And then I thought no I’m not going to do that, what I’ll do is light a piece of paper on fire then throw it into the grill. I did that then there was a massive explosion in my face. I burned my beard off and my eyebrow off and my eyelashes off. They say I’m lucky but it didn’t feel like a lucky stroke when it happened, that’s for sure.”