04 August 2023 , 10:14
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Comedian Joe Pasquale has revealed he was nearly killed last week during a freak accident. The former I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here star was rushed to hospital after a fall which ended with him stabbing himself on the bone of a moose’s antlers.
Joe, 62, revealed that things could have ended very differently for him if he had fallen in a different position. The much-loved comedian could have died if he had fallen on the razor-sharp antlers on his stomach – and feels lucky to be alive after the freak accident last week.
The incident occured after the funnyman finished the second night of his new tour at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness. Opening up about the terrifying accident on the White Wine Question Time podcast, the comedian detailed how the horror story unfolded as he recalled: "I nearly died at the weekend. I nearly killed myself, I nearly died. I really did. That close.
Comedy icon Joe was rushed to hospital after being 'stabbed' and 'nearly killed' in a freak accident (Instagram)
Joe remembers falling on the moose's head before being stabbed by the antlers"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," he told.
All of a sudden, Joe remembers falling on the moose's head before being stabbed by the antlers. "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," he explained. "I was going to impale myself on eight moose points right in my belly. Seriously, I was going to die.”
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Joe ultimately ended up with seven stitches in his leg, but feels lucky to have not sustained any further injuries and is grateful to have escaped death having realised things could have ended much worse for him. "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," Joe recalled.
Joe feels lucky to be alive after the horror accident (ITV)"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 insisted on the podcast.