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Jay Leno appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” today to give his side of the story. During the interview he admitted that his reaction to NBC’s “Tonight Show” succession plan in 2004 was “a white lie,” and in reality it “broke his heart.”
“It broke my heart. It really did — I was devastated,” Leno told Oprah. “This was the job that I had always wanted, and this was the only job that ever mattered in show business — to me. It’s the job every comic aspires to. It was just like, why?”
Oprah also asked Jay about Jimmy Kimmel’s appearance on “The Jay Leno Show” to which he responded, “I got sucker-punched. … I could have edited it. But I said, ‘No, no, put it out there.”
