VERNON Kay claims he narrowly escaped disaster when he was almost crushed by a herd of stampeding cows.

The Bolton TV and radio presenter had to dive over a barbed wire fence to get out of the way when the angry cattle charged towards him after being spooked by his dog.

Kay revealed the escapade when he appeared on ITV’s This Morning to talk about his new US TV show.

The keen golfer said: “We live near a farm and when I go on my daily jog or daily run, I have to go through the farmer’s field, and our dog was going crazy, was going absolutely nuts.

“I was in the back garden with a pitching wedge, as you do, practising, and I got outside and he’s herded up a herd of cows.

“So I go out, I drag him by the collar. The next minute I hear this roar of thunder — 35 plus cows are hurtling towards us. I dived over our next-door neighbour’s barbed wire fence, cut all my left side and ruined my favourite golf jumper.

“Cows are a nightmare.

They are really dangerous.”

Kay lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife, TV presenter Tess Daly, and their daughters, Phoebe, aged five, and 11- month-old Amber.

He will be spending July in the USA to start filming his new American quiz show, The Six.

He said: “I went over to America for a week, and I had a couple of screen tests for a game show over there, which is very similar to Who Wants to be a Millionaire.”