BBC Radio Lancashire<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I was due to have surgery for a faulty heart valve, which was caused when I was 11 and had rheumatic fever, which left a scar on it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The surgeon had let me get on the stage because I said I really wanted to do the show.<\/p>\n
“I got up and I did get a few laughs and I just remember thinking ‘ooh, think I’ll lie down'”, before he fell to the stage.<\/p>\n
East Lancashire-based Robbins played the character Den Perry, the rival of Kay’s character Brian Potter, in the Phoenix Nights show in 2001 and 2002.<\/p>\n
The 2015 stage show saw the original cast of the programme reunited, with profits going to Comic Relief.<\/p>\n
Members of the audience were asked to leave the 20,000-capacity venue after Robbins collapsed shortly after the interval.<\/p>\n
He has also appeared in Brookside, Doctors, Holby City, Little Britain and Coronation Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said if it was not for their swift action he would never have seen his grandchildren “because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653959","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=653959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}