British singer, Engelbert Humperdinck, is reflecting on how his shoelace saved his life during his service in his country's army.During a recent episode of "The Engelbert Humperdinck Show," the 90-year-old singer reflected on his time in the British Army, sharing that he enlisted in 1954 when he was 18 years old and that an undone shoelace saved his life.He explained that prior to being stationed somewhere, he was hoping he would end up in Cyprus, as his friend was already stationed there, but ended up in Germany."The way they choose people and when you're in training, you form a rank of threes and the adjutant goes around with the sergeant major, and he goes counts out 24 people, and they'll say hit Cyprus, Germany, Belgium or whatever it is, wherever you're going to."ROGER MILLER GIVEN STARK CHOICE AFTER GETTING CAUGHT STEALING: ‘YOU CAN GO TO JAIL OR YOU CAN GO IN THE ARMY’Engelbert Humperdinck recalled how a shoelace helped save his life.(Dave Simpson/WireImage)Humperdinck recalled that when the time came to line up for their assignments, "all of a sudden I looked down and my bootlace had came undone."He took a moment to pause and tie his shoelace, noting that "in the meantime, everybody's forming into ranks of three.""So I ran after I tied my shoelace and stood where I possibly could in the front line, and they started counting Malaya, Cyprus, and I was the next one.
Germany.I went to Germany.
I was just I just missed Cyprus by one."He added: "I think God was watching over me because, later on, I found out all the people that went to Cyprus never got there.They got killed in an ambush on the way to Nicosia."GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HEREHumperdinck was one pick away from being sent to Cyrus instead of Germany.
(Bobby Bank/Getty Images)The singer went on to say that it was "unbelievable that I wasn't in that batch" because he only missed it by one.He went on to call the time he served in Mulheim, Germany, "an intere...