ACTOR Taron Egerton collapsed on stage in front of a packed crowd on opening night of his new theatre show. The star - famous for playing Elton John in Rocketman - was last night forced off stage at the Ambassadors Theatre in Leicester Square after passing out.
His understudy Joel Harper-Jackson stepped in to replace him in the final part of the play. Reassuring fans he's recovered, 32-year-old Taron insisted: "I am completely fine.
Slightly sore neck and a bruised ego, but I'm fine." He said he will return to the stage on Monday night. "As some of you may have heard, I passed out during the first performance of COCK last night," Taron wrote on Instagram. "I've decided to put a positive spin on it and I would appreciate it if anyone who was in the theatre last night just said that I gave such a committed, electrifying performance that my body couldn't handle it and check out. "That being said, apparently you're meant to actually do the full show and not just three quarters of it.
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