Circus performer falls from wheel at Blackpool Tower | UK News [Video]

A circus show at Blackpool Tower had to be called off after an acrobat fell to the ground during an act, looking ‘in serious pain’.

Families watching were swiftly told to leave after the man lost his footing while performing a planned manoeuvre on on the ‘Wheel of Faith’.

He was treated by paramedics for an injury to his wrist but is expected to make a full recovery.

A review of the act will now take place as part of ‘standard procedures’ to ensure it is safe enough to continue.

Bazza Cooke wrote on X: ‘The guy landed right in front of us and came down with a fair bump.

‘He didn’t seem critically ill, but who knows. He was in serious pain. Hope he makes a speedy recovery.’

The user was replying to a man calling himself Nick, who wrote: ‘The bloke who was at top of the wheel of death fell to the ground …