Gavin and Stacey star Mathew Horne reportedly suffered a head injury during a performance on the West End. The 46-year-old actor is currently playing comical character Prospero in The Tempest at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. After the incident, which occurred ten minutes into the performance on Tuesday evening, he was quickly taken off stage, claims The Sun.
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They wrote that Mathew was rolling on the floor as part of the play when he hit his head on a rock. The performance was paused, but things then resumed after 15 minutes. When it continued, Mathew is said to have had a visible mark on his face. ‘Mathew’s forehead had a big, red mark on it and it looked pretty painful, even from far away in the theatre,’ an audience member told the publication.
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They added that he was ‘clearly in pain’ and his ‘forehead looked sore’. The source summarised: ‘He was a real trooper to finish the show because it can’t have been comfortable.’. Mathew, who plays Gavin Shipman in the BBC sitcom alongside Joanna Page as Stacey West, appeared at an early screening for the highly anticipated final episode the following day. However, he left the event, which was attended by Metro, before the post-episode Q+A due to his commitments to the theatre.
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The Christmas special written by creators James Corden and Ruth Jones, who also play Smithy and Nessa, is expected to become the most-watched show of the day. The 2019 Christmas episode scored the highest overnight Christmas ratings in 12 years, attracting an average audience of 11.6 million viewers, making it the biggest festive special since Christmas Day 2008.
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