Rushed to hospital at Sundance

30 Rock star Tracy Morgan has been taken to hospital after collapsing during an award ceremony.

The comic fainted just after giving his acceptance speech at the Sundance Film Festival last night.

Gossip website TMZ said he had appeared drunk during the ceremony, but his representative Lewis Kay strongly denied the claims, saying it was ‘a combination of exhaustion and altitude’.

He added: ‘Tracy is seeking medical attention. He is with his fiance [model Megan Wollover] and grateful to the Park City Medical Centre for their care.

‘Any reports of Tracy consuming alcohol are 100 per cent false.’

Morgan was led out of the venue after his speech and collapsed outside.

30 Rock returned for its sixth series earlier this month, and featured a plotline joking about the accusations of homophobia that dogged Morgan last summer. In the episode, his character Tracy Jordan sparks a protest with a stand-up routine similar to the one in which the real-life Morgan claimed he would stab his son to death if he were gay.

As his boss Liz Lemon, Tina Fey told him: ‘You’re a public figure and, believe it or not, the dumb things you say may influence or hurt people.’

Published: 23 Jan 2012