Ryan Seacrest was bitten by a shark at the weekend while swimming a few feet from the beach in Los Angeles.

Seacrest, the American Idol host was bitten on the toe, by a shark he bizarrely described as being about the size of an average cat.

The cat-sized shark apparently left a tooth in his foot.  No word on whether it was cat-tooth sized.

"I thought it was a stick!" said Seacrest. "I wasn’t quite sure what had happened. I saw it swim! He took a bite, and he left."

Seacrest did not need hospital treatment after the attack, but did take an Advil.

Ryan Seacrest: ‘I Was Bit by a Shark’
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He took a bite, and he left." Seacrest, 33, said the shark’s tooth "wasn’t a great thing to find. It was like finding a splinter! …