Martin Kemp has chainsaw accident and 'lucky not to lose his hand'

Martin Kemp was taken to hospital after a painful chainsaw mishap resulted in an injury to his hand. The 64-year-old Spandau Ballet star had his hand bandaged following the incident, which occurred when he grabbed the chainsaw by the blade to slice a piece of wood. The shocking event was revealed by Martin's son, Roman Kemp, during an episode of the You About podcast. Roman shared that his dad sent a photo of his bandaged hand with the simple message "Yep.... Chainsaw! ! !", causing concern amongst the family. Chatting with Tom Grennan, Roman, aged 32, said: "It's scary. Friday night I'd just finished work and looked at my phone, and dad sent a picture of his hand with all fingers heavily strapped up. "And all he writes underneath in the family WhatsApp group is 'yep... chainsaw'." Roman went on to say: "I was texting him saying 'what? !' but got no reply, and then Harley my sister is like 'what's happened?' but again, no reply. "So he said 'Oh there was a bit of the branch that we wanted chopping down so I went and got a chainsaw." Roman added: "He's 65. He's got more than enough dough. Get a professional in, you can't be doing that." He continued: "Do you know what he said?'I picked it up from the blade and it didn't have the sheath on it'. He said it switched on...he's picked it up and it's kicked into gear." Roman stated that Martin was "lucky not to lose his hand", adding: "I know a mate who lost a finger through that." Roman continued, explaining that Martin "screamed" and rushed towards his wife Shirlie with blood streaming everywhere, reports the Mirror . The Spandau Ballet star then headed to hospital for a tetanus injection. Singer Tom then quipped that Martin's wife Shirlie wouldn't be best pleased if the wound prevented him from playing guitar in future. Martin enjoys a strong relationship with his son and daughter Harley, 35, and recently spoke candidly to the Mirror about the strange experience of parenting adult children. He said: "My kids are now in their thirties, but I've got footage of them taking their first steps, and it's mind-boggling when I watch it back. "You miss them so much when they grow up. It's weird, when I watch old videos of Roman I can even remember the way he would smell of milk as a baby. Both of my parents have passed on now, but I've got memories of them and it feels like I can still smell them when I see old clips. It's priceless. "We had a load of old tapes of the kids, and a few Christmases ago, Shirlie bought me a camera that can play them all. I hadn't seen these tapes in years, so I was watching them back through this little lens on the camera with my eye up against it, crying my eyes out!"