“Cake Boss” followers will quickly get a candid look into Buddy Valastro’s restoration from a ugly hand damage.

Valastro, star of TLC’s “Cake Boss” and proprietor of Carlo’s Bake Store, would be the topic of a two-hour particular documenting his street to restoration following his damage in September, the cable community mentioned Monday.

The particular, airing Dec. 23 at 9 p.m. EDT, follows the occasions “as they transpired in actual time,” TLC says, and contains footage taken instantly after the accident. It’s going to additionally doc Valastro’s surgical procedures and bodily remedy, in addition to reactions from his household ready within the hospital.

Valastro will even seem in a Christmas-themed Meals Community competitors known as “Buddy vs. Christmas,” airing Nov. 22 at 10 p.m. EDT. The vacation particular was filmed previous to the accident and contains a few of Valastro’s final muffins earlier than he impaled his hand.

In September, Carlo’s Bakery spokesperson Michael Ciullo advised USA TODAY that the famed pastry chef’s hand was repeatedly impaled by a “steel rod” throughout a “malfunction with the bowling pinsetter” on the bowling alley in his New Jersey dwelling.

“After attempting to launch the bowling pin from the cage mechanism, his proper hand turned lodged and compressed contained in the unit,” Ciullo mentioned in a press release. “Unable to take away his hand, he can see a 1½ (inch) steel rod slowly and repeatedly impale his hand 3 times between his ring finger and center finger.”

‘Cake Boss’ Buddy Valastro describes his bloody hand damage: ‘It simply blew out half of my hand’

After Valastro had been trapped for 5 minutes, Ciullo mentioned the chef’s teen sons, Buddy Jr. and Marco, used a reciprocating noticed “to chop via the steel rod and relieve (their) father from the machine.” The tv persona has since had a number of surgical procedures on his hand.

Valastro appeared on “At present” for his first interview for the reason that accident in late September .

“It simply blew out half of my hand,” he mentioned. “I believed I used to be going to faint… I checked out my hand and there was blood in every single place.”

Valastro didn’t give a timetable on his restoration, however mentioned it will be an “uphill battle” to get again to baking.

‘Cake Boss’ Buddy Valastro’s hand impaled throughout ‘horrible accident’ at dwelling bowling alley

Contributing: Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY; Anthony Zurita, NorthJersey.com

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