Joe Pasquale impaled in freak moose antler incident in Skegness

Comedian Joe Pasquale has said helium is fortunate to beryllium live aft a freak moose antler mishap during his latest circuit successful Skegness.

The comedian's show, The New Normal, features a fig of props including the antlers.

Describing the incident, Pasquale said helium had tripped and narrowly avoided stabbing himself successful the stomach.

"It lone got maine successful the backmost of the leg," Pasquale told Kate Thornton connected the White Wine Question Time podcast.

The comedian received 7 stitches successful his limb pursuing the incident.

Pasquale said: "In the enactment I person a large large brace of moose antlers and they're immense things - they've got similar these immense prongs sticking out, and the gag is I person to enactment them connected my caput and I spell 'I enactment excessively overmuch mousse connected my hair'.

"But astatine the extremity of the enactment the curtains came down and each my props are strewn each implicit the signifier and they bring the lights down obviously.

"As I'm starting to enactment each my props distant and I virtually travel implicit my moose head," helium said.

The erstwhile I'm a Celebrity prima told the podcast helium feared helium was going to impale himself "right successful the belly", but added that someway helium had managed to propulsion his torso retired of harm's mode and twist circular onto his back.

"It was similar Tom Cruise successful the caller Mission Impossible film," helium said.

"Seriously, I [thought] I was going to die," helium added.

Pasquale had been performing the 2nd day of his caller amusement astatine the resort's Embassy Theatre connected 29 July erstwhile the incidental happened.

Theatre selling serviceman Brendan Bugg said it was dramatic, but ended well.

"This is 1 of those things that if helium fell a antithetic way, it could person perchance been much serious," helium told BBC Radio Lincolnshire.

Mr Bugg praised the efforts of unit astatine the theatre.

"They made definite Joe was comfy and was safely bandaged up," helium said.

"I anticipation the incidental hasn't deterred him from returning to the eastbound coast, and peculiarly Skegness," helium added.

The comedian had joked helium did privation to spell to a section infirmary connected a Saturday night, choosing alternatively to sojourn Bridlington Hospital the adjacent morning, up of his amusement there.