Matt Healy's music brought his father out of a coma

Tim revealed: "I came off set that day and then went to hospital, that was it. I don’t know how Derren [scriptwriter Derren Litten] wrote me out. I’m going to have to wait and see it like viewers. There were complications at the ¬¬hospital and I ended up in intensive care.

"I was in a coma for days, so obviously I don’t remember any of it. She [Jo] was in bits, as you can ¬imagine. She said that while I was in a coma she kept playing my son’s music to me, she had his album on a loop. After a few days I started smiling and then I came round - so my son’s music brought me back to the land of the ¬living."

And Tim is feeling "so much better" now and can't wait to get back to work full time.

He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I’m feeling so much better, I’m on the mend now. It’s been a long few months and we’ve really been through the wringer as a family, but we’ve come out the other side and I’m starting to work again.

"There’s no holding me back. I lost about three stone, which is good but I wouldn’t recommend losing it the way I did. I’ve put a stone back on, but where I was a pit bull terrier, I’m now a -sparrow. I’m a lightweight now ...

"ITV and everyone at 'Benidorm' have been so amazing to me this last year with all my health problems. We’re a family on that show, there’s a loyalty there, so if they want me, and a 10th series is ¬commissioned then I want to be there. I’ve got my bags packed already, I’m itching to be back there! I love that job and I love Benidorm."