Ryan Seacrest Bit By Shark In Mexico

The Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" couldn't be getting better free PR.

"American Idol" host and radio superstar Ryan Seacrest announced on his radio show Monday that he was bit by a shark while in Mexico. Listen:

Page Six reports that Seacrest took the shark bite in stride and just gave himself some aspirin:

Ryan Seacrest was almost shark bait. The "American Idol" host was swimming in the Pacific Ocean in front of LG Villa Cabo in Mexico on Sunday when a sand shark swam by and chomped his toe. "He didn't know what it was for a minute - he thought it was a stick," said one spy. "He had no time to be scared. He saw it swim away, he got out, took aspirin and called it a day."

E! reports that Seacrest is still in pain from the bite, which occurred on Sunday:

"I was bitten by a shark," recalls Ryan. "It swam up to me, and it took a bite, and then he left."

According to Ryan, the predator was the size of a cat and the incident took place offshore in water about 4 feet deep--with the shark leaving behind "three holes" in his toe.

"Don't let me fool you by my unbelievably comfortable state of being on the air right now, because I'm in pain."

Comments

[DangerDave]

Even sharks have better taste than the average american idol fan

[Grannysue]

Obviously the shark spit him out, even the shark didn't want a bit of him, they apparently have "taste" you know.

[KJZebra]

A bite on the toe? A shark?

More likely an over zealous mini-carp chomping away during Ryan's trendy pedicure.

[HeevenSteven]

Seacrest, ouch!

[demfriend]

Three holes in his toe!! Sure Ryan it had to be a shark who got the taste and rejected the whole meal! In the past weeks people have really been bitten by real sharks and for some reason the sharks they encountered were not nibblers. I find it harder to believe when we know sharks actually bit and take what they bit with them. Still got the whole foot and all toes so the three points on the toes must have been something like a fork. Do sharks use forks to eat with down there?

[donorman]

The shark didn't eat him because it wanted a meal not a snack.

[philipwitak]

is anybody really sure it was a shark?

[JohnShank]

Could've been Simon Cowell!

[All57States]

Was he bitten by the shark or did he jump the shark?

[Counterglow]

Forgive me for saying so, but the word your English-challenged copy editor is looking for is "bitten". Unless, if course, the editor is some poor benighted backwoods savage with a Grade 3 education, in which case maybe we can all kick in a few bucks to give the poor jerk a proper education.

[LRonHubbard]

Thanks for that. I'm also fed up with 'writers' who cannot write.

[BearsLeft]

Careful. I "know somebody" who got banned for criticizing some rather poor grammar here at HuffPo.

[HarlemFreeThought]

It's called Murdochian English.

[VINSTERDUDE]

the shark brushed his teeth with sea-CREST!

- damn,..i oughta sell this to leno -

[grayday81]

LMAO!!!

[meanguy]

whatever happened to professional courtesy?

[geha714]

The shark will be a vegan now.

[trollsbwild]

Thank G*d our cultural icon didn't get eaten alive?

[Hagrid]

I feel bad for the shark.
Is the poor thing going to have to go "In the Closet"?

Chances are that this is just a stunt by Seacrest's press agent.... who gets 'nipped' by a shark?
He probably stepped on a sea urchin..... irony?

[ICanHasDemocracy]

and he took an aspirin? Further proof that he's an idiot...maybe botox is a coagulant.