Peep Show star Robert Webb has told how he has urgent heart surgery to save his life. The comedian and author, 47, was found to have a heart murmur caused by a mitral valve prolapse and it only showed up thanks to a routine medical before he prepared to film the comedy series of Back with David Mitchell.
On the morning of the operation on November 1, there was a problem with the intensive care unit and the hospital tried to delay surgery until the cardiologist told the surgeon: “You can’t send him home for five days, he isn’t going to last two days.” During surgery, Webb also lost two-thirds of his blood cells. “So it was all,” he said, “a bit touch and go.” Webb added that it has changed his outlook on life, saying: “The first thing you
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