Paul O'Grady suffers 'heart attack'

Paul O'Grady suffers 'heart attack'

10.16PM, Fri Jun 30 2006

Lily Savage creator and TV host Paul O'Grady has been taken to hospital after suffering chest pains, a friend said.

The 51-year-old comedian, who fronts his own Channel Four show The New Paul O'Grady Show, was admitted earlier.

A friend said: "It does appear he has had a heart attack. He was taken to hospital with chest pains this morning."

A spokeswoman for Channel Four saidt: "We are shocked and concerned by the news, and along with Paul's many fans we are wishing him all the very best."

In April 2002, the comic suffered a heart attack, and underwent a procedure to widen a blocked artery.

He subsequently said he was reviewing his lifestyle, including giving up smoking "for the first time in my adult life", and joked: "Lambert and Butler have had to lay off 200 staff."

A spokeswoman for the William Harvey Hospital in Kent declined to comment.