Taron Egerton – best known for playing Eggsy in Kingsman and Elton John in Rocketman – passed out on stage and was replaced last minute by an understudy

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Actor Taron Egerton collapsed on stage during the opening night of his new theatre production.

The 32-year-old – best known for playing Eggsy in Kingsman and Elton John in Rocketman – passed out on stage and was replaced last minute by an understudy.

Thankfully, a doctor had been watching the show in the audience and came to his aid last night.

Taking to his Instagram Stories today, Taron reassured fans that he has since recovered and wrote: “As some of you may have heard, I passed out during the first performance of COCK last night.

“I am completely fine. Slightly sore neck and a bruised ego, but I’m fine.

“I’ve decided to put a positive spin on it and I would appreciate it if anyone who was in the theatre last night just said that I gave such a committed, electrifying performance that my body couldn’t handle it and checked out. That being said, apparently you’re meant to actually do the full show and not just three quarters of it. So I’ll be back with a vengeance tomorrow night.

“Thank you to the amazing team at the theatre and my wonderful cast mates for being so lovely.

“But mainly I wanted to say thanks to Joel Harper Jackson who stepped in to do the last bit of the play.

“Joel is an amazing actor and a lovely person. Thank you, Joel. T x.”

The play’s production released a statement last night, which read: “During this evening’s first preview of Mike Bartlett’s play Cock at the Ambassadors Theatre, Taron Egerton fainted towards the end of the performance.

“A doctor who was in the audience attended to Taron immediately after the incident, and whilst he felt fine, it was decided that Taron’s understudy, Joel Harper-Jackson would continue in the role to complete the performance.”