“I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later I was back in shouting at people. I was shouting at people during the heart attack. I had it for three days without realising what it was.”

Nigel Lythgoe  (born 9 July 1949 is an English television and film director and producer, television dance competition judge, former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer).