Comedian Joe Pasquale revealed he was nearly killed last week after a freak accident.
The former I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! star was jetted off to hospital after he stabbed himself when he fell onto a moose’s antlers.
On Friday (August 4), the 62-year-old opened up about his near-death experience which happened last week where he confessed things could have gone differently if he’d fallen just a few inches higher.
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As he recalled the horrifying experience, he explained that he could have easily lost his life had he fallen onto his stomach and feels lucky to be alive.
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The incident took place after the comic finished the second night of his new tour at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness.
The dad-of-five opened up about the terrifying experience when he appeared on the White Wine Question Time podcast with host Kate Thornton.
He recalled: “I nearly died at the weekend. I nearly killed myself, I nearly died. I really did. That close.
“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’.
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“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,” he explained.
Joe recalled falling onto the moose’s head before he was stabbed down to the bone by its enormous antlers.
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The comic went on: “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 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.”
The stand-up star went on to compare his incident to a dramatic scene that could find a home in the new Mission Impossible movie.
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He continued: “”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?’.
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The star chuckled: “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’.”
Joe went on to reassure his loyal legion of fans that he is on the mend, adding: “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.”
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