Joe Pasquale reveals he impaled himself on moose antlers in Skegness

Comedian Joe Pasquale has instructed a podcast he needed to get stitches after impaling himself with a set of moose antlers on the finish of a present in Skegness.

The star was performing on the seaside city’s Embassy Theatre final month as a part of his new tour, The New Normal.

Speaking on Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast, he mentioned he tripped on stage and fell on the antlers – narrowly lacking his torso.

“I nearly died, I really did. I was that close!”, the I’m A Celeb star defined, including: “It only got me in the back of the leg.

“In the act I’ve a fantastic huge pair of moose antlers, and so they’re big issues. They’ve acquired these big prongs protruding, and the gag is I’ve to place them on my head and I’m going ‘I put an excessive amount of 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.

“As I’m beginning to put all my props away, and I actually journey over my moose head.”

Pasquale, who’s 61-years-old, insisted how he’s “quite nimble for my age”.

Likening the incident to Mission: Impossible, Pasquale described how he prevented a extra severe harm.

“So I had one leg on the bottom and the opposite one’s hanging out to the right-hand facet someplace, and I managed to push myself over, my torso went over the moose head.

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“It was like Tom Cruise… I actually twisted round on to my back as well, all in a split second.

“It was all in gradual movement and as I got here down the moose head solely acquired me behind the leg. It actually damage, however I assumed, ‘oh that is okay.'”

Opting to not rush to the native A&E on a Saturday night time, the venue’s medic patched him up, earlier than he went to Bridlington’s hospital up the coast the following day, the place he was given seven stitches forward of his present that night time.