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Laurence Fox sorry for swearing at heckler

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Actor Laurence Fox has apologised for swearing at a member of the audience who had been muttering audibly in the front row during a performance of The Patriotic Traitor at London's Park Theatre on Tuesday. The audience saw Fox step out of character - that of French statesman Charles de Gaulle - and chastise the heckler with robust language. "If someone is hell-bent on heckling, they are ruining it for everybody," he explained to Sarah Montague on the Today programme. "It becomes an unperformable play, the play stops at that moment." (Image: Laurence Fox. Credit: BBC)

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