Joe Pasquale has disclosed that he was taken to the hospital last weekend after he “narrowly missed imminent death.”
The 61-year-old comic required stitches after falling and stabbing himself on the bone of a moose’s antlers.
The previous I’m A Celebrity…The Get Me Out of Here sta collapsed shortly after taking the stage at Skegness’ Embassy Theatre. He believes the accident may have been considerably worse if he had fallen in a different position.
Speaking on the White Wine Question Time podcast, 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 set of moose antlers and they’re massive things – they’ve got like these huge prongs sticking on,’ Joe explained on the show. And the joke is that I have to place them on my head while saying, “I put too much mousse on my 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.
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‘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 wound up in the hospital with seven stitches in his leg, but it appears that his sense of humour is still intact.The comedian is most known for winning the fourth series of I’m A Celeb in 2004 and competing in Dancing On Ice in 2013. He also presented the relaunched edition of The Price is Right.
Source My Celebrity Life.
