The Chase star 'didn't want to cause a scene' after suffering double heart attack
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One of the stars of ITV show The Chase has detailed the time he suffered two heart attacks during his long-running comedy career.
During his appearance on Tuesday's Good Morning Britain, Paul Sinha, 55, spoke about the health scare, which happened during his time at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe two years ago where he was performing in a show about his life.
Paul said: "I was actually here (on GMB) a couple of years ago plugging the 2023 show. It was a bit of a wild show, it was about my life as a gay disabled son of immigrants.
"It was quite a political show, it was a big show, I was in a room full of 400 people. It all got on top of me and I had two heart attacks at the same Edinburgh Fringe. Week number one and week number three."
Paul told the ITV presenters the first one unfolded when he was shaking Levi Roots' hand in a bar when he had the heart attack.
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Susanna questioned what it felt like as he revealed it wasn't like anything he had experienced before.
Paul shared: "A crushing, tightening chest pain that, as my years of medicine made me remember, was not like anything I had ever felt before, and I knew it was a cardiac. I didn't want to cause a scene, so I just walked into a cab."
Although Susanna chuckled at his frank admission, she replied: "I know it's not funny, but you do have medical training?"
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Confirming that he does, Paul confessed he didn't want to call an ambulance, so he decided to get into a taxi and be taken to the nearest hospital.
Ed shared his amazement that Paul was able to get back on stage a week after having a cardiac arrest as he continued performing.
Paul commented: "Yeah, well, the first time, they didn't diagnose it properly, so they sent me home. The second time, they said that these have been two small heart attacks. I said, 'Can I carry on?'.
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"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, it was the Edinburgh Festival and I didn't want to lose a huge amount of money."
Both Good Morning Britain and The Chase are available to watch on ITVX.
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