MARTIN Compton has revealed he was as soon as rushed to hospital after falling out of an ambulance on the set of a TV present.
The Line of Responsibility star, 38, had simply appeared in Ken Loach’s movie Candy Sixteen when he landed a component in ITV medical drama The Royal in 2003.
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He performed a suicidal character who threw himself off a cliff within the Heartbeat spin-off.
However he legitimately injured himself after a freak accident.
Talking on The Stressed Natives Podcast with co-host Gordon Sensible, Martin stated: “I used to be exterior this outdated ambulance on a gurney and there is a scene the place the docs and the police are speaking about how this might have occurred.
“The ambulance was parked on a slope with the nostril pointing up the best way. The paramedics have been simply extras, they weren’t medically skilled.
“I used to be strapped to this old skool gurney and so they put me at the back of the ambulance however they did not lock the factor.
“I am strapped and I simply really feel myself going backwards out this ambulance. I zoomed out of the again strapped down and smashed my head after a few five-foot drop.
“I then truly needed to go to hospital for concussion, satirically from being in an ambulance on a set.
“It is that humorous factor as an actor, till any person shouts ‘Minimize,’ you simply preserve going. I in all probability ought to have went ‘Do these guys know what they’re doing?’ However you do not give it some thought, you simply belief that every little thing is alright.”
The star not too long ago revealed how cheeky lodge employees requested him for snaps – earlier than revealing they’d overbooked and had no room for him.
He stated: “In some methods, I revered the cheek for asking me for the photographs earlier than telling me in regards to the room.”
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