Ryan Seacrest “Attacked” By Cat-Sized Shark In LA

Justin Cote

July 30 2008
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Florida isn’t the only place the sharks are biting this year, and celebrities aren’t immune from the prehistoric chomps. Proof of that is “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest, who revealed that he was bitten by a shark over the weekend while swimming just off the coast of Los Angeles.

Seacrest told the story of what could have been a fatal encounter on his Monday morning LA KIIS FM radio show:

“I thought it was a stick. I wasn’t sure what had happened,” he said.

According to Seacrest, he was swimming “about eight feet out” from the LA shore over the weekend, in water approximately 4-feet in depth. He says that the shark viciously attacked his toe before swimming off into the Pacific Ocean’s mysterious depths.

“I saw it swim! He took a bite, and he left.”

Seacrest describes the shark as being roughly the size of a cat, and says the bite left three small holes in his toe. The wounds were apparently not all that bad, and he simply took an Advil to self-medicate.

Ryan also received a bit of a souvenir from the incident, finding one of the shark’s teeth to serve as a reminder of his brush with the marine beast.