Daredevil stuntman reveals he escaped from inside dead cow by crawling out its bum
dailystar.co.ukdead cow by crawling out from the animal’s bum.The Welsh escape artist performed the ‘ridiculous’ stunt for show The Seven Stupidest Things to Escape From, but Channel 4 were so appalled they never aired it.The 42-year-old admitted the cow - which he was sewn into ‘like a big shoe’ - was ‘very difficult’ to escape from.READ MORE: Horny seagulls will become crazed ‘acid heads’ - causing summer hell for BritsHe added that once he had squeezed an arm out of the cow’s anus his father comedically shook his hand.Channel 4 judged the whole event to be too gruesome for television.Speaking on the Manatomy podcast, Goodwin - who is engaged to Sherlock actress Amanda Abbington, 48 - said: “I made a show, probably about 2004, for Channel 4 called the Seven Stupidest Things To Escape From.“They became more and more ridiculous, and [there was] one I wanted to do...“Houdini was apparently sewn up inside a dead whale and tried to escape.“I just thought, ‘That’s utterly arbitrary’. “Normally an escape is based on something everybody knows it’s very difficult to escape from - like a prison or a safe or whatever.“It just seemed so stupid, and so I had a bit of a search around, couldn’t find a whale so a cow was the next best thing. “It was incredibly difficult, because it was at the tail end of the whole mad cow disease thing, so to get somebody to agree to give us a cow was not easy.
It was a cow that was already due to be slaughtered.“Usually, in the process of getting the idea from your head to reality you have to make compromises.“But the escape from the dead cow was exactly how I imagined.“It was perfect.
I was basically tied up and put inside it, and they laced it up like a big shoe - with legs. “It was a very, very difficult thing.
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