Legendary British comedian, 62, rushed to hospital after freak accident ‘almost kills him’
COMEDIAN Joe Pasquale has revealed he was nearly killed last week after a freak accident.
The I’m A Celeb winner, 62, was rushed to hospital after he fell and stabbed himself on the razor-sharp bone of a moose’s antlers.
Joe had just finished the second night of his new tour at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness when the terrifying accident occurred.
If he had fallen on his stomach it is likely to have killed him.
He said: “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’.
“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.”
Joe went on to explain how he manged to avoid any serious damage – but did end up with seven stitches in his leg.
He continued: “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’.
“Anyway, 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’.”
Asked if he was in shock, Joe told the White Wine Question Time podcast: “I must have been. This medic comes round and goes ‘What have you done?’
“I pulled my trousers down again and he went ‘Oh my God, you need to go to hospital. I can’t do that. You’ll have to get it sewn up. It’s a great big hole in your leg’.
“I said ‘How big?’ He said ‘Too big for me’.
“This is in Skegness at 11 o’clock at night. I said ‘There’s no way I’m going to Skegness at 11 o’clock, I’ll be there for 48 hours, it will be full of every drunk person in the world there’. He said ‘Well you’ve got to go’.
“In the morning I was in Bridlington so I went to an A&E in Bridlington. I go there nine o’clock in the morning. 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 is well known for his unusually high pitched voice.
The funnyman won I’m A Celeb in 2004 and also stripped off to raise money for cancer awareness as part of the All New Monty.
As well as his stage work and appearing at the Royal Variety Performance five times, Joe has also been on Dancing On Ice.