NBC is worried Jimmy Fallon’s drinking may be getting out of control after The Tonight Show host injured himself for a third time in four months, sources claim.
NBC is worried Jimmy Fallon’s drinking may be getting out of control after The Tonight Show host injured himself for a third time in four months, sources claim.
Last week, Jimmy was spotted in New York City with band-aids after injuring his hand at a Harvard party. Jimmy had been “holding a bottle of Jagermeister” and greeting fans when he tripped over a woman who had bent down in front of him, People reported.
It’s the third time the star has been hurt and sources say NBC are worried about the party-loving comedian’s drinking. “It’s gone from being a whisper to a chatter,” a source told the New York Post. The tumble follows a more serious injury in June, when Jimmy nearly severed a finger when he caught his wedding ring on a table corner during a freak fall at home. Jimmy then chipped his tooth while trying to tend to his injured finger eight weeks later. A New York bartender told the New York Post she had served him numerous times over the years and remembered him partying late into the night.
“He’s a mess,” she told the New York Post. “Everything you’ve heard about his behaviour is true.” Last year, Jimmy’s former Saturday Night Live co-star, Horatio Sanz, told New York magazine they had both been “superfunctioning alcoholics” to blow off steam from the stresses of the job.
Yet, while NBC are becoming increasingly concerned about Fallon, according to insiders, no one has yet intervened.
In fact, in August, his contract was extended until 2021.
