Joe Pasquale has revealed that he ‘narrowly avoids certain death’ last weekend.

The British comedian, 62, recalled on White Wine Question Time podcast that he was rushed to hospital after stabbing himself in a freak accident.

While on stage at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness, Joe accidentally fell and stabbed himself on the razor-sharp bone of a moose’s antlers.

The curtain had just come down on the second night of his new tour, when the terrifying accident occurred, which has left him permanently scarred.

The former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here winner confessed: ‘I nearly died at the weekend. I nearly killed myself, I nearly died. I really did. That close!’ before detailing the terrifying incident.

OMG! Joe Pasquale, 62, has revealed that he was rushed to hospital last weekend after stabbing himself in a freak accident, and admitted he ‘narrowly avoided certain death’ (pictured outside the hospital)

Yikes! While on stage at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness, Joe accidentally fell and stabbed himself on the razor-sharp bone of a moose’s antlers

Terrifying: The former I’m A Celeb winner confessed: ‘I nearly died at the weekend. I nearly killed myself, I nearly died. I really did. That close!’ 

Joe explained: ‘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. 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.

Gory: The curtain had just come down on the second night of his new tour, when the terrifying accident occurred, which has left him permanently scarred

‘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, if he’d been stabbed in his stomach it could have been fatal, but thanks to being ‘nimble’ he managed to avoid any life-threatening damage.

However, he ended up needing seven stitches in his leg after the moose’s prongs severed the back of his leg.

The comedian 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”.’

Joe admitted that he must have been in a state of shock, before the medic insisted he go straight to A&E because the gash was so severe. 

Close call! Joe needed seven stitches, and said: ‘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’

The comedian recalled: ‘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.’