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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Lydia Spencer-Elliott

Woman who Ian McKellen landed on ‘spent night in hospital’ after actor’s fall

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The woman who cushioned Ian McKellen’s fall from the stage at the Noël Coward Theatre earlier this week has said she spent the night in hospital after the incident.

McKellen, 85, slipped and fell off the stage during a fight scene in Robert Icke’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV –Player Kings –and allegedly landed on the 30-year-old in the front row.

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