Veteran magic man Paul Daniels was injured after he was bitten on the finger by one of his rabbits.
The 76-year-old Middlesbrough-born stage magician was nipped by his big-eared sidekick when he tried to intervene as his furry friend tried to get fruity with a fellow rabbit.
It meant a trip to the hospital and an emergency tetanus jab for the Magic Circle member, who has been married to “the lovely Debbie McGee” for 26 years.
But the show must go on - and the pint-sized performer, whose real name is Newton Edward Daniels, carried on with his magic performance – Back Despite Popular Demand – in Crewe sporting a bandaged finger.
This is not the first time Daniels has had cause to seek attention for a hand injury.
In 2012 he lost the tip of his finger following an accident with a circular saw.
The veteran celebrity magician severed the top of one his fingers as he was working in his garden shed at his home in Wargrave, Berkshire, on New Year’s Day.
Trying to build a safety device for the power tool, his fingers slipped into teeth of the saw as he was approaching the “fiddly bit”.
And getting on the wrong side of a rabbit is far from being Daniels’ weirdest medical complaint.
He was once treated by nurses after being hit in the face by a pizza slice thrown by children’s TV puppet Sooty.
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