Ricky Gervais was forced to delay filming on the new series of his comedy drama Derek after he developed gastric flu.
Under the weather: Ricky Gervais (Picture: PA)
The comedian managed to get through a few scenes for the show before having to be examined by the doctor for severe abdominal pain.
Gervais was then carted off to hospital where he was given urine and blood tests. Doctors told him he was down with gastric flu.
Ricky took to his website to give fans the inside scoop on what happened on set, joking that he thought he had 'cancer of the everything'.
He wrote: 'A fun-packed week filming on Derek was only marred slightly by the fact that an emergency doctor was called after 24 hours of severe abdominal pain.
'Examination, urine sample and blood tests were taken and I was rushed to hospital for a scan. (I say rushed, they couldn't do the scan for 6 hours, in which time I was allowed only water.'
The comedian went on: 'I also couldn't stop filming, so in some scenes, Derek will look a little paler and sweatier than usual.
Ricky's newest comedy series Derek had to stop filming while Ricky was taken to hospital (Picture: Channel 4)
'Anyway, I had a form of gastric flu. Not what I first assumed; it was the second I had any sort of pain then – 'cancer of the everything'. As soon as a doctor tells me I'm not going to die, I feel better. They are true healers.'
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