John Tothill

And your appendix has now, in her words, obliterated.

She said, your appendix has completely fallen apart.

And it is now floating around your body.

She said, you are in a state called intra-abdominal sepsis.

And she said, we need to operate on you in the next few hours or you're going to die.

She said, we need to get you to the theatre right now.

I said, that's what I've been trying to tell you.

LAUGHTER Get me to the theatre.

But look, I'm not going to pretend it wasn't scary because obviously it was scary.

Suddenly it was a real life emergency.

They put me in this hospital bed and they bumped me up the kind of urgent surgery list and stuff.

And I woke up from the surgery and the surgeon said, this is an exact quote, he said, yeah, when we opened you up, we were all a bit like, yikes.

Now, they don't know what causes appendicitis.

And it's been suggested that excessively fatty diets might lead to appendicitis.

I was essentially almost killed by my own gluttony.

And then he told me off, basically.

He got cross with me.

And he said, in my 25-year career as a general surgeon, he said, I've never seen someone come in that late with appendicitis because of this kind of dogged attitude I had to doing the show every day.

I didn't want to cancel it.

And he said, that was dangerous, and it was stupid, and it was reckless, and it was immature.