Actor William Shatner, pictured here on August 30, has been taken to hospital (Picture: Getty)
William Shatner has been taken in an ambulance to hospital after suffering a medical emergency.
The 94-year-old Star Trek icon, who cemented his status playing Captain James T. Kirk on the hit sci-fi show and its movies, was reportedly admitted after an issue involving his blood sugar, sources with direct knowledge have revealed.
The incident occurred late on Wednesday afternoon local time in Los Angeles, with Shatner calling emergency medical workers as a precaution according to insiders.
A Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance was dispatched to his home with the actor and former astronaut taken to a local hospital to be checked out.
Sources told TMZ that the star is now doing ‘good’ and ‘resting comfortably’.
Despite his age, Shatner has remained active and often makes lively public appearances, as well as working on projects that are tied to his work as Captain Kirk.
A source says he is now ‘resting comfortably’ after he was admitted (Picture: Patricia Schlein/Star Max/GC Images)
Earlier this month, the star revealed he never made a penny from the Star Trek re-runs.
Speaking about his time on the show – which originally ran from 1966 until 1969 – Shatner told The Telegraph: ‘Nobody knew about re-runs.
‘The concept of syndication only came in after Star Trek was cancelled when someone from the unions said, “Wait a minute, you’re replaying all those films, those shows.”
‘There was a big strike. But in the end, the unions secured residual fees shortly after Star Trek finished, so I didn’t benefit.’
Shatner recently revealed that he never made any money from Star Trek re-runs, when the show’s popularity soared (Picture: Silver Screen Collection/Getty)
However, Shatner – who was married to actress Gloria Rand, 92, at the time of first filming Star Trek, and has three daughters, Leslie, 67, Lisabeth, 64, and Melanie, 61, with her – insisted the programme did pay him ‘very well for me in my experience up to that time’.
‘But by the standards of Hollywood, not very well – and with a dissolving marriage, with three children, I was broke at that point,’ he added.
After Star Trek was cancelled in 1969, Shatner set up a touring company and put on a ‘one-set Broadway play’ in theatres to make cash.
He recalled that he ‘booked the whole summer, a week in each town, filling each theatre’ and ‘made a living there, just about’.
At the end of the season, upon his return to LA, his struggled eased and ‘the work began to flow in’.
Metro has contacted a rep for Shatner for comment.
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