Reports stated she was not breathing for 10 minutes. Carrie FisherĦ0-year-old Carrie Fisher died after going into cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles on the 27th December 2016. His lifestyle seems to have played a big factor in the star’s death, though he died doing what he loved. He was back on television screens three months later. The conjurer whose tricks always went wrong had suffered an actual heart attack in 1977 whilst in Rome. This took its toll on his career and his health. In one week alone he performed 52 shows and he had become well known for his heavy drinking and smoking. His work schedule left him having to cope with arduous hours. The footage of the event is still available to watch on YouTube. The event was the headline on the news program that followed the show but it was not made official until the following morning. He was taken to Westminster Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Sometime later there was another commercial break and it wasn’t till this point that the ambulance crew were able to move him into their waiting vehicle. At the back of the stage, efforts were made to revive Cooper. Jimmy Tarbuck’s manager pulled Tommy off the stage, through the curtain to the other side… and the show went on.ĭustin Gee and Les Dennis were up next with their performance. No adverts were on cue, so for a few moments there was nothing but a black screen. Ironically, dying the same way he had lived.Īlisdair Macmillian, the programme’s director cued for the orchestra to play for an unscheduled commercial break. The assistant on stage watched on smiling, thinking it was all part of the show and those thoughts were echoed throughout the auditorium. Tommy just collapsed to the ground making gasping noises, highly likely to have suffered a cardiac arrest. ![]() Props that would magically appear from inside of his cloak. Whilst being helped on with a red cloak by his assistant and with Jimmy Tarbuck, the host, hiding behind the stage’s back curtain, preparing to pass Tommy the required props…. ![]() ![]() Midway through his act on London Weekend Television’s Variety Show, with millions of viewers watching, events unfolded. Tommy CooperĪpril the 15 th 1984, live on television from Her Majesty’s Theatre, Westminster, Thomas Frederick Cooper collapsed on stage from a reported ‘heart attack.’ Sudden cardiac arrest knows no bounds as far as who it takes and there have been numerous celebrities that have succumbed to it.
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