The Traitors ' Paul Gorton has been the TV villain that fans love to hate on the BBC One competition, fully embracing his role as a devious traitor before becoming the latest contestant to be banished from the show.
However, the Manchester-based business manager nearly didn't make it on the show after a serious injury put him in hospital just four weeks before filming started in Scotland.
Paul, 36, told OK! in an exclusive interview that he worried about his place on the show after a game of football left him with a collapsed lung. "My lung collapsed four weeks before going on the show," he said. "I was recovered in time for the show but it was from a football injury, someone banged into me. "My lung collapsed.
I was outside A&E, screaming and crying, and I was on morphine and CAT scans and all that type of stuff. I nearly had an emergency operation to re-inflate my lung because it had depressed so much, and yeah, it was chaos." He added, "They also couldn't give me the painkillers that I needed to be on because it affected my body in a different way.
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