‘Accident prone’ Death in Paradise star Kris Marshall suffers freak injury whilst skiing
Death in Paradise star, Kris Marshall, has revealed he was injured in a freak skiing accident which saw his collar bone painfully break in two places.
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Death in Paradise star Kris Marshall has revealed a gruesome injury with his collarbone breaking in two different places.
The 53-year-old actor, best known for his former role as DI Humphrey Goodman in the tropical BBC police drama, revealed the break during his appearance on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio UK on Monday.
The Love Actually actor arrived at the radio show with his arm in a sling and explained his “middle class” accident: “It’s a slight skiing mishap, which is probably the most middle class thing I’ve ever said in my life.”
“‘Broken collarbone, two places. I ski a lot, so this is my first skiing injury ever,” Kris added.
He revealed that the accident occurred when he was “trying to do jumps” with his daughter, 14-year-old Elsie who he shares with his wife Hannah Dodkin.
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The actor then revealed that he is somewhat accident prone: ‘So I had an accident in Bristol about twenty, nearly twenty years ago, got hit by a car. Yeah these things sort of happen to me, I don’t know why.”
20 years ago, the actor was hospitalised at Bristol Infirmary with a collapsed lung and head injuries after he was thrown twelve feet in the air after being struck by a car.
Kris led Death In Paradise in seasons 3 to 6, taking over from Ben Miller, and later handing the reigns over to Ardal O’Hanlon. Since 2023 he has appeared in the spin-off Beyond Paradise, reprising his beloved character.
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Fans have recently theorised that Kris might be set to leave the show, after his character was forced to decide which member of his team would be getting the axe.
Speaking exclusively revealed to Reach Plc that the detective struggles with taking on any form of responsibility: “He hates any kind of authority, he hates rules, he hates being told what he has to do, and so it’s thrust upon him, and it literally comes knocking on his door as it does. You know, he really detests that, really dislikes it, and he doesn’t like the pressure.
“And also, he loves his team. He feels like losing one of them would be like losing an appendage, or a part of him, you know.
“He doesn’t feel like he’s the boss. He feels that they all bring a sort of an equal amount to the Melange, you know, to the Jamboree, and so I think he’s thrust into this, as I said about him, living on a boat, he’s quite happy living on a boat.
