Why Does HGTV's Chase Looney Wear An Eyepatch On Fixer To Fabulous?

Distractify analyzed a blog post by Looney in which he explained what happened to his eye and finally gave fans the answers they desperately wanted. Apparently, the accident occurred on the Fourth of July, 2017, only a few days after filming the pilot episode of "Fixer to Fabulous."

Looney was rushing to set up a series of fireworks in order to beat an incoming rain storm. The fireworks were 3-inch mortars, which launch the part that blows up, and after beginning to light them all, things went awry. Looney believes the explosion from the fourth tube knocked the one next to it over. He was attempting to grab the fifth mortar, which he had just lit, when it exploded into his face and the world around him began to fade.

He described the scene as a movie, saying, "There was a deafening boom, a burst of light, and in the chaos of that moment everything around me slowed down." According to Yahoo, Looney was rushed into surgery for 8 hours but doctors were not able to save his eye. He was later informed that the scars on his face would never go away and the ability to move his left side was uncertain.