Colin Jost Shares Injury Update After Paris Olympics Exit

Saturday Night Live writer and Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost shared an injury update after days after his gig as a correspondent for the 2024 Paris Olympics ended prior to the event's conclusion.

“Dude, are you OK?’ That’s the no. 1 text message I’ve received in the past 48 hours. Usually followed by, ‘Heard your foot fell off,’ Well, I’m actually fine! And despite what big media conspiracies would have you believe, I wasn’t ‘sent home’ from the Olympics. NBC simply looked at my food, declared me legally a leper, and exiled me here, to the island of Malta!" Jost joked in a video shared on his Instagram account.

“Now Malta doesn’t have many Olympians competing this year, but it does have thousands of 15-year-old British kids competing to see who can black out the fastest, and somehow they’re all winning," he added. It also has this casino behind me, where I’ve blown the hundreds of dollars I’ve earned as a surfing correspondent.

“But the real reason I’m in Malta of course is because it was the site of 10 separate bubonic plague outbreaks. So they thought I would fit right in.”

NBC confirmed that Jost, 42, the husband of actress Scarlett Johansson , who was in Tahiti covering surfing events "stayed longer than originally planned" due to weather issues in a statement to USA TODAY last Thursday (August 8).

"The competition ran long due to weather," NBC said. "He had a great time, and everyone was thrilled with his coverage from Tahiti."

Jost previously shared posts on his Instagram account of a foot injury he suffered on a coral reef during his Tahiti coverage, which soon became a staph infection.

"I've been visiting the medical tent regularly. It's a weird feeling when you're in the medical tent way more than any of the athletes," Jost later told NBC Sports .

"The medical staff at this point, they know my name, they're very familiar with my badge ID number, they know I'm allergic to penicillin," he added. "They started saying, 'We need to see you every day.' At first, I was like, 'Oh, my God, guys, I like you, too.' And they were like, 'No, it's because the infection hasn't improved."

"I vow, I will not leave here unless it's being evacuated in a helicopter," Jost joked.

Australian weatherman Luke Bradnam took over surfing coverage in Jost's absence, Reuters reported at the time.