Ted Nugent slices leg with chainsaw on reality TV

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Reality star injured by chainsaw

Nugent was a huge star in the 1970s
Reality TV host Ted Nugent has injured his leg with a chainsaw on the set of his reality television show in the US.
The 55-year-old needed 40 stitches and has been fitted with a leg brace after the incident on his VH1 show Surviving Nugent: The Ted Commandments.

The series sees the rock star transform a group of unsuspecting city slickers into tough country dwellers.

It is set at Nugent's compound near Waco, Texas. The show is scheduled to air on US TV in the spring.

The 55-year-old rocker, best-known for his 1977 hit Cat Scratch Fever, is recovering from his injury but has not missed any of the show's taping.

His career has now been complemented by his TV work.

The singer is an enthusiastic hunter

The original instalment of Surviving Nugent, where city dwellers had to live in a barn, make their own outhouse and skin a boar, was shown in October. The winner got $25,000 (£14,040).

The current series now has a prize of $100,000 (£56,180) for the winner.

Nugent's son Rocco and wife Shemane, as well as his ranch hands Big Jim and Big John also appear on the show.

Nugent has courted controversy in the US because of his enthusiastic promotion of hunting - especially with a bow and arrow.

He is also a spokesman for the right to gun ownership, and has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association.

The singer has been criticised for his right-wing views, which included saying people who could not speak English should not be able to live in America when he opened a Kiss concert in 2000.

― Animals Revenge, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Karmic Retribution at its Veritable Zenith.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that would be that he was then attacked and eaten by carnivorous deer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha....good point, Ned.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

His duet with Rocco is a cert for number 1, Valentine's day...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Doubtless the carniverous deer would cut him into tiny sticks and dip him in fondue whilst listening to Killing Joke, eh Alex?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I almost lopped my own leg off once while trying to start a chainsaw, and I'll betcha anything this happened under similar circumstances. Of course, I was 19 and had hardly ever used one before. I don't know what his excuse would be.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll bet the arrogant MF was showing off to the minions on the TV show - and he got careless and cut himself. That sounds like the Nuge to me, yeah.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, Ted Nugent is an arrogant loudmouthed right-wing idiot. But his 2002 album Craveman is fucking brilliant, and if you claim to like hard rock and/or metal, and didn't hear it, you're just wrong, that's all. Go check it out. It's the best thing he's done in 20 years.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmm, leg of Nugent!

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only one who didn't know he lived on a compound in Waco? Not that it's surprising.

― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm curious to know what he was doing with the chainsaw.
hunting maybe¿
or perhaps practicing his juggling act¿

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

A chainsaw accident only burnishes Ted's rep. Mishandling bladed
machinery is the birthright of every red-blooded American who
ever attended a pigeon shoot or an arms show.

It would have been more thrilling if he had chainsawed someone else's leg, perhaps an MTV contestant's. But as far as cutting machinery accidents go, it's right in there with what I grew up with in Pennsy. Just a scratch, I bet Ted thought -- some stitches, a thorough wound debridement, a tetanus shot and scrip of augmentin or tetracycline to go.

If the MTV reality show weren't so constrained by the network's
inherent phoniness and legal eagles, it would feature things
more in-line with everyday life in small rifle-packed hunting
communities. For example, regular accidents in which
a character on the show fills a colleague's back or leg with
shotgun pellets during grouse season. Not much treatment necessary; they work themselves out.

The accidental shooting a prized hunting dog or a neighbor's
should be shown, too.

An MTV chancer or two could come down with tularemia
from skinning wild rabbit or Lyme disease from getting too close
to the deer carcass as the ticks drop off.

Nope, can't see how a paltry chainsaw accident would hurt things.

― George Smith, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh what I liked about the first season was all the racism, sexism and homophobia! He just tells it like it is, y'know?!

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Good, I hope it hurt him.

― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

If he needed 40 stitches I'm sure it must have stung a little bit.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Unfortunately, he may have learned an important lesson here. Which means there will probably not be a gun accident.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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