# Did Josh Duhamel (Danny), really hurt his foot? (Las Vegas) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977 "2004-07-13T23:34:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/1 "2004-07-13T23:34:12Z")
Did the actor really hurt is foot causing the writers to write it into the show? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/2 "2004-07-14T03:29:49Z")
I’ll take that as a ‘no’. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/3 "2004-07-14T11:58:27Z")
I think you should take it more as “ **Lobsang** , honey, you need to get out more.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/4 "2004-07-15T09:39:28Z")
I do need to get out more. but the question wasn’t mine to begin with. Watching Las Vegas with step-dad (we are fans) he asks the question. I say “I’ll ask on the internet” …or… ‘bump’ ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/5 "2004-07-15T12:52:42Z")
I assume so. You might check at Television Without Pity and see if anyone mentioned it. Las Vegas doesn’t, I think, have a forum there, but they have a thread. When it first showed, my husband and I thought it must have been from a real injury. ---
**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/6 "2004-07-15T18:52:38Z")
It was my understanding that he ruptured his achilles tendon playing basketball in real life. ---
**Author:** ![justafan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f08c70/32.png) [@justafan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justafan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/7 "2020-07-25T01:09:09Z")
Yes it was a ruptured Achilles heel. Found this from an article in 2010 According to _WENN_ , Duhamel said: “I was like, ‘Okay dude, I’ll do the underwear but please make my right calf look a little bit bigger’.” “I ruptured my Achilles [heel] six years ago and it never grew back, so it’s like half the size of the other one.” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/8 "2020-07-25T15:07:54Z")
Welcome, @justafan . Hope you stick around our little community. Mrs. Wheelz and I watched Las Vegas in its original run, and during lockdown E! was showing Saturday marathons and we rediscovered it. It was a fun show. I recall Danny being injured twice: He was shot in the leg and was on crutches for a few episodes while recovering. Then a few seasons later he was in a basketball tournament with Mike and had to back out after hurting his foot. I wonder if he was legitimately injured both of those times? @Lobsang - if you can remember back 16 years ago (I barely can), which of these did you mean? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/9 "2020-07-25T16:15:22Z")
He was definitely legitimately injured during the episode where he gets shot in the leg. If you watch the episode, you can see precisely where they transition from running-after-badguy to a very-hastily re-shot “ow, my foot!” ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/10 "2020-07-25T21:30:42Z")
Whoa, I got an email to notify me of my name being mentioned in a reply to a post. This is new. This is my first time seeing the new look SDMB. Anyway, I have trouble remembering what I begun to do four seconds ago (if I am distracted)… I had completely forgotten about the existence of the show ‘Las Vegas’ until I got that email. I do vaguely remember Danny having a cast on his foot. I’m slightly more inclined to believe it’s the cast on the foot that prompted my question rather than seeing him using crutches. Welcome @justafan ! ---
**Author:** ![BigDfromLA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@BigDfromLA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDfromLA)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/11 "2020-07-30T09:03:26Z")
Las Vegas was a funny show. Loved the Alec Baldwin episode in season 2. AB rips into a hack artist…“I can paint better pictures with my johnson!” and “All you can do are paintings that hang at the Holiday Inn in Pahrump” in his Glengary Glen Ross voice! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/12 "2020-08-01T12:18:22Z")
Sylvester Stallone also shows up a few times and displays superb comedic chemistry with James Caan. I never knew he was capable of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/13 "2022-01-17T02:07:38Z")
He actually hurt it playing basketball. They wrote him being shot in to cover why he was on crutches for the next few episodes and used a cane for a few after that. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-josh-duhamel-danny-really-hurt-his-foot-las-vegas/254977/14 "2022-01-17T02:27:16Z")
Someone beat you to the answer 17 years ago. Welcome to the board.