EASTENDERS - FORMER EASTENDERS ACTOR TODD CARTY COLLAPSES ON STAGE

Former Eastenders actor Todd Carty is being treated in hospital after collapsing on stage during a play in Stevenage.

Mr Carty, who used to play Marty Fowler in the BBC soap, passed out at around 16:30 GMT yesterday during a performance of The Business of Murder at the Gordon Craig Theatre.

His agent, Derek Webster told the BBC that Mr Carty had been "violently sick" on the stage but that he was now recovering.

It is unclear at present what may have caused the collapse.

"It might have had something to do with an ear infection that Todd has been suffering from for a few days now – I can't actually confirm that," Mr Webster said.

"He did collapse on stage, he was violently sick. The theatre staff brought the curtain down, rushed him to the Stevenage hospital.

"He's undergoing tests, there's not much more that we can say, other than he's well, he's awake and he's conscious and his wife is with him," the actor's agent added.

Mr Carty began his acting career as Tucker Jenkins in Grange Hill. He later joined
Eastenders in 1988 as Mark Fowler.

He left Albert Square in 2002 before joining ITV's The Bill as PC Gabriel Kent.


17/02/2008 12:05:00