Sir Ian McKellen, 85, reveals how he avoided catastrophic injuries after he ‘tripped & plunged head-first’ off stage

SIR Ian McKellen says his fat suit saved him from worse injuries in a horror fall off a stage.

The actor, 85, tripped on a newspaper and chair before plummeting into the front-row audience in June.

Manuel Harlan / ArenaPALSir Ian McKellen says his fat suit saved him from worse injuries in a horror fall off a stage[/caption] GettySir Ian plummeted into a front-row audience in June[/caption]

He suffered a chipped vertebrae and a fractured wrist at the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End...