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A former Coronation Street star appeared on BBC Morning Live where they revealed an unusual injury

BBC Morning Live hosts, Holly Hamilton and Rav Wilding, were left gobsmacked over a former Coronation Street star’s unusual injury on Friday’s show.

During the latest instalment, Holly and Rav caught up with actor Nigel Havers, who played Lewis Archer on and off from 2009 until 2019. He’s also appeared in the likes of Finding Alice, The Gentlemen, Brothers & Sisters, Dangerfield, The Good Guys and Don’t Wait Up.

Nigel’s film roles also include Dr. Rawlins in the 1987 Steven Spielberg war drama Empire of the Sun and Ronny in the 1984 David Lean epic A Passage to India.

During Friday’s appearance, Nigel was on the programme to talk about his second touring show, where a synopsis reads: “Join me, a stage, and a lifetime of gloriously ridiculous stories to share with you. You’ll get the full Havers experience: charm, wit, and absolutely no running in slow motion.”

Talking about what viewers can expect, Nigel, 74, spoke about his time filming British film Chariots of Fire, which earned him a BAFTA nomination for his role as Lord Andrew Lindsay.

However, Nigel soon left hosts Holly and Rav gobsmacked when he revealed an injury he sustained from the film, which he kept hidden for years.

Nigel said: “When I did Chariots of Fire, we learnt how to be a professional athlete, really. We had a trainer for five months. I had to learn to hurdle.

“I could run at school. I was quite good at running. But I looked at hurdling and I thought, ‘No, that looks really uncomfortable.’ But I had to learn to do it because that’s the character I was playing.

“I was showing that to [co-star] Ben Cross, ten days before we started filming, how good I got. And I clipped the last hurdle. And I stuck my hand out and I dislocated my shoulder… and I broke my wrist.

“But I couldn’t tell anybody because I thought if I broke my wrist I wouldn’t be in the film. So it mended on its own, in a very sort of strange way.”

Nigel then pulled up his sleeve to show the way his broken wrist healed to which Holly gasped and a shocked Rav exclaimed: “So that’s still there to this day?” with Holly adding: “That’s because you just ignored it? Tried to let it heal by itself” to which Nigel confirmed.

The actor explained: “I’ve lost all feeling in my thumb and stuff! But no one’s ever noticed!” to which the hosts joked “until now”

BBC Morning Live continues on weekdays at 9:30am on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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