Joe Pasquale has revealed he was rushed to hospital after he ‘narrowly avoided certain death’ last weekend.
The comedian, 61, needed stitches after accidentally falling and stabbing himself on the bone of a moose’s antlers.
The former I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here star fell just after he appeared on stage at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness. However, he’s pretty sure the accident could have been much worse if he’d landed in a different position.
Speaking on the White Wine Question Time , he said: ‘I nearly died at the weekend. I nearly Ki**ed myself, I nearly died. I really did. That close.’
On the podcast, Joe described how this unlikely incident happened: ‘In the act I have a great big pair of moose antlers and they’re huge things – they’ve got like these huge prongs sticking on. And the gag is I have to put them on my head and I go “I put too much mousse on me hair”.
‘But at the end of the act the curtains came down and all my props are strewn all over the stage and they bring the lights down obviously. And I’m starting to put all my props away and I literally trip over my moose head. And it was in slow motion.
‘My moose head’s on the floor all sticking up and I’m starting to go down – I’m falling on to the moose head.
‘I was going to impale myself on eight moose points right in my belly. Seriously, I was going to die.’
Acording to the comedian, this is how he managed to avoid ‘certain death’: ‘I am 62, but I am quite nimble for a bloke of my age. So I had one leg on the ground, the other one’s hanging out there to the right hand side, and I managed to push myself over. My torso went over the top of the moose head.
‘It was like Tom Cruise in the new Mission Impossible film. I actually twisted round on to my back as well – all in a split second. It was all in a split second. And as I came down on the moose’s head, on its prongs, it only got me in the back of the leg. It really hurt, but I thought “that’s ok.”
‘I went to see my tour manager who’s doing the sound. I went “Lee, I think I’ve hurt my leg, will you have a look at it?” He went “yeah, what have you done?” I said “I’ve just fallen over and landed on my moose head”. He laughed. I pulled my trousers down to show him and he nearly went white, he nearly fainted. He went “Oh my god, you need a medic”.
‘They sewed me up. I had to have seven stitches. I’ve got a great big hole in the back of my leg, but if I’d gone straight down on my belly I’d be dead.’
Joe ended up in hospital, with seven stitches in his leg, but it seems his sense of humour is still very much intact. The funnyman is well known for winning the fourth series of I’m A Celeb in 2004 while also taking part in Dancing On Ice in 2013. He also hosted the revived version of the game show The Price is Right.
