Catherine Tate says Mathew Horne has left the ‘The Catherine Tate Show Live’ "in the lurch" and moved on to another play.
The 50-year-old star – who is currently starring ‘The Catherine Tate Show Live’ at the Wyndham’s Theatre, London – informed audiences on Tuesday (08.01.19) that the 40-year-old actor would no longer be in the production as he had moved on.
She joked: "He’s got a proper job in a play. Broke his contract, leaving me in the lurch, even though I’ve given him 15 years of steady work. What a liberty!"
Meanwhile, the ‘Gavin and Stacey’ star recently had a brush with death when he was hit by a train on a booze-fuelled night out over the Christmas period.
He was clipped on a pedestrian crossing and thrown backwards in Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, while walking back to his parents’ house but luckily did not require hospital treatment.
A duty manager at The Nelson pub where the actor had been drinking said at the time: "It was a really, really unfortunate accident and it could have been a lot worse. We are all glad that it wasn’t. He was obviously very shaken up but he’s all right now. He’s got a bit of a scratch on him but no underlying issue there whatsoever.
"Mathew is a regular customer of ours. I can say that everybody was quite spirited that night and it’s a genuine mishap on his part.
"We know Mathew well. We were just making sure that he was OK, as we would with any customer. Mathew wasn’t taken to hospital. The police had to be called just because of the nature of the incident. But they were just glad that he wasn’t harmed."
Another source in the village added that the comedian had made a "miraculous escape" from the incident.
Catherine Tate says Mathew Horne left her play in the lurch
