The Chase's Paul Sinha had two heart attacks at Edinburgh Fringe and refused to cancel his act
The Chase star, who is also a comedian, revealed how he had been due to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival when he had a heart attack and refused to phone an ambulance as he didn't want to 'lose out on a lot of money'.
Paul Sinha has recounted the moment he suffered two heart attacks at the Edinburgh Fringe festival but kept quiet as he 'didn't want to cause a scene'. The Chase star, 55, who is also a comedian, opened up about the sudden health scare he faced during a 2023 run at the iconic festival in the Capital.
Speaking on Tuesday morning's episode of Good Morning Britain, he said: "It was a bit of a wild show. It was very much about my life as a gay, disabled son of immigrants, but it was quite a political show, and it was a big show. I was in a room with 400 people in and it all got on top of me and I had two heart attacks in the same Edinburgh Fringe. Two! Week number one and week number three."
He explained the first heart attack was while he was 'shaking the hand of Levi Roots', and the quiz guru decided to excuse himself rather than get someone to ring for an ambulance. Paul said: "I didn't want to cause a scene. I didn't want to call an ambulance.
"I thought I might as well just get into a cab to take me to the nearest hospital as quick as possible, which is what I did."
Paul was discharged without a proper diagnosis but even suffering a second one, the Chaser, who described the first heart attack as 'not like anything I've ever felt before', was still determined to continue his Fringe run.
He recalled: "The first time they didn't diagnose it properly, so they sent me home and the second time they said, 'These have been two small heart attacks.
"And I said, 'Can I carry on?' And they said, 'We're not going to tell you what to do'.
"So I carried on. But looking back on it, that's not the right thing to do.
"I know why I did it, because of the Edinburgh Festival, and I didn't want to lose a huge amount of money."
Paul is best known for being a Chaser, nicknamed The Sinnerman, on the ITV show.
However, he is also a former GP who has spent three decades practicing his craft as a comedian, the Metro reports.
The 55-year-old was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2019 and he admitted on GMB that he makes his 'comedy goldmine' condition, which is a neurodegenerative disease which affects both motor and non-motor systems, part of his stand-up shows.
Paul quipped: "I do lots of jokes about it. It's as simple as that.
"You deal with the cards you've been dealt, and if you've been given a comedy goldmine, as Parkinson's is, then you deal with it.
"I mean, as far as I'm aware, no other comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe will be talking about their own struggles with neurological degeneration so might as well be me."
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