Hogmanay <\/a>incident that forced his partner Lindsay to \u201csmash the door down off its hinges\u201d.<\/p>\nHe said: \u201cI\u2019d had a busy old December and was at home, sitting with my partner, chilling out. We thought we\u2019d sit down and choose something for the telly – Paddington 2, in case you\u2019re interested. I love Hugh Grant in that film, he\u2019s just tremendous.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sat down and she\u2019d made one of my favourites – chicken katsu curry. I took one mouthful and I started to choke.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran to the toilet. I was desperately trying to unblock it and the next thing I knew, I came to and I could see this big bit of wood and I thought, \u2018what\u2019s going on?\u2019<\/p>\n
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\u201cI could hear her upset on two phones. I was thinking, \u2018what?\u2019 She\u2019d smashed the door down off its hinges.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d collapsed, stopped breathing and wasn\u2019t responding. I know a lot of people were keeping their fingers crossed that I wouldn\u2019t!\u201d<\/p>\n
He revealed the paramedic called out to treat him was a Still Game fan, saying: \u201cUnbeknownst to me, the first words from the paramedic were \u2018aw, look who it isnae!\u2019 Yeah, thanks guys, that really helped!\u201d<\/p>\n
Posting two pictures on his Instagram on Hogmanay, fans of the comedian were shocked to see him lying in a hospital bed at Glasgow Royal Infirmary wearing a nasal cannula. The caption read: \u201cWell 2025 you have been a cracker of highs and lows but I didn\u2019t imagine bringing it in like this\u201d.<\/p>\n
But Gavin, who played Boaby in the BBC sitcom between 2002 and 2019, told STV Radio presenters Micky Gavin and Cat Harvey on their Sunday morning show that he has since made a full recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Still Game actor revealed how he choked on his dinner and was spent night in hospital (Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[243,96,59,136438,132926,111898,46985,106100,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-377406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-glasgow-royal-infirmary","tag-hogmanay","tag-hugh-grant","tag-still-game","tag-stv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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