Jimmy Fallon recently caught everyone’s attention with his grid walk interaction with Sky Sports Formula 1 veteran Martin Brundle before the start of the Miami Grand Prix. During the live segment with Brundle, Fallon suddenly bit into his microphone cover, leaving viewers stunned and the host visibly surprised. But if a source is to be believed, Fallon’s antics last weekend made everyone “uneasy,” leaving many worried.
Jimmy Fallon’s F1 Miami race day mic moment worries insiders
Jimmy Fallon surprised everyone when he bit into the foam cover of Martin Brundle’s microphone at the Formula 1 grid walk. Several found the moment funny. However, a source says, the host’s behaviour from the past few days has left everyone worried. “It wasn’t just the mic incident,” one insider told Rob Shutter’s Naughty But Nice. “That was the moment everyone saw. But all weekend, Jimmy was acting strangely. He was off his game, running late, distracted, jumpy, and hard to manage.”
Talking further about the mic moment, the source added that although “People laughed because it looked like classic Jimmy clowning around,” things were not as good. “Behind the scenes, people weren’t laughing” as “something felt off” about the late-night host. Sources even revealed that throughout the weekend, the staffers were struggling with him as “One minute he was charming and switched on, the next he was scattered and impossible.” “It made everyone uneasy,” said the insider.
Nevertheless, post his behaviour, Fallon spoke about the incident in the latest episode of The Tonight Show. As per Express, the 51-year-old talked about “the grid where they had you go out onto the track right before the race. You do like 20 interviews with reporters all over the world.” Furthermore, it was at this time that he spoke about the viral moment. He jokingly told Brundle that his “microphone tastes delicious.”
