MARTIN Compton has revealed he was once rushed to hospital after falling out of an ambulance on the set of a TV show.
The Line of Duty star, 38, had just appeared in Ken Loach’s film Sweet Sixteen when he landed a part in ITV medical drama The Royal in 2003.
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He played a suicidal character who threw himself off a cliff in the Heartbeat spin-off.
But he legitimately injured himself after a freak accident.
Speaking on The Restless Natives Podcast with co-host Gordon Smart, Martin said: “I was outside this old ambulance on a gurney and there’s a scene where the doctors and the police are talking about how this could have happened.
“The ambulance was parked on a slope with the nose pointing up the way. The paramedics were just extras, they weren’t medically trained.
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“I was strapped to this old school gurney and they put me in the back of the ambulance but they didn’t lock the thing.
“I’m strapped and I just feel myself going backwards out this ambulance. I zoomed out of the back strapped down and smashed my head after about a five-foot drop.
“I then actually had to go to hospital for concussion, ironically from being in an ambulance on a set.
“It’s that funny thing as an actor, until somebody shouts ‘Cut,’ you just keep going. I probably should have went ‘Do these guys know what they’re doing?’ But you don’t think about it, you just trust that everything is alright.”
The star recently revealed how cheeky hotel staff asked him for snaps – before revealing they’d overbooked and had no room for him.
He said: “In some ways, I respected the cheek for asking me for the pictures before telling me about the room.”
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