Injury
On 17 September 2008, Grant Denyer injured his back by participating in a monster truck promotional event resulting in a compressed fracture of the lower vertebrae. Grant was taken by ambulance to the Wollongong Hospital.
The accident occurred while Denyer was in training for the Monster Truck Championships, driving a monster truck at Dapto Showground. After practising a jump over five cars in the monster truck, Grant removed his foot too soon from the accelerator which caused the vehicle to land heavily leaving the star with a compressed fracture to his lower vertebrae, broken into eight pieces. He was moved to a Sydney hospital and his recovery took months. He is famously reported as saying that his injury has reduced his rather short size by 1 cm.
He was then moved into intensive care but there were no signs that there was any nerve damage issues and he was back on the air to host Australia's Got Talent in 2009, however he did not return to It Takes Two in May.
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