Joe Pasquale’s career started with wrestlers rubbing their crotches in his face

Comedian Joe Pasquale’s career started on a bum note because wrestlers would rub their crotches in his face.

The 2004 I’m A Celebrity winner started out as a wrestling referee for 70s icons such as Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy before becoming a comedian.

But as part of the act they would pull his pants down and shove his head in the gusset area of their costumes, which hadn’t been washed for days.

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The star said he was forced to endure “rancid” smells as the fighters competed four times a day and rarely washed their “crusty” leotards.

Pasquale, who is appearing in the Peter Pan panto at The Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, got the gig when he was working as a holiday camp entertainer.

He said: “It was terrible, because they would do the holiday camp circuit, right? And they would do four shows a day, at different holiday camps.

“By the time they got to us on a Thursday or Friday, they’d done like 28 shows these blokes. And they still had the same leotard on. All of them. To say they were minging is an understatement.

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“And they would get me involved. It’s all choreographed. They’d go, ‘okay, he’s going to go down the first round. In the middle round of the last bout, we’re going to get you in a headlock like that. Then we’ll pull your trousers down. So make sure you’ve got some underwear on’.

“So, okay, yeah, that was fine.

“And then they’ll get me between their legs. And I’m not kidding, these gussets on these things, they were rancid, They were crusty and everything.

“I was gipping at the end of it. But all the old girls loved it. They were throwing things at the ring. And they hated the goodies and baddies”

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