Paul Daniels responds to Sooty pizza clash: 'I am not in hospital'

Paul Daniels has claimed that the pizza-throwing incident on The Sooty Show has been blown out of proportion.

The TV magician was alleged to have been left dazed by a pizza chucked by glove puppet Sooty during filming for the children's TV favourite's latest CITV series.

Daniels spoke to Sky News Radio this morning, playing down the story and insisting that his only injury was a small amount of pizza in his eye.

"That was over a month ago, I wasn't hospitalised, I got pizza in my eye," he said. "It stung."

He continued: "So on the way home I stopped off at a wonderful village hospital and the nurse said, 'Oh no, this will sting a minute', put a drop in and it was all over. It did sting for a minute and then it was gone.

"The worse thing is that they've said Paul Daniels is in hospital. I am not. I am about to open at the Edinburgh Fringe this afternoon. I'm fine. I don't even know what this is really about other than there's no other news for The Sun journalists."

Joking about the recent hacking scandals surrounding The Sun's owner News International, he said: "I had a great tweet. 'Delete all your old voicemails and then they'll catch up with the news'."

Of his Edinburgh Fringe gigs, which will run for the rest of the month, he added: "My rabbits are raring to go!"