Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas thanks mystery Good Samaritan who looked after him after he suddenly collapsed at train station
The unknown man missed his train after helping the TV personality when he keeled while heading back to Norfolk
A GOOD Samaritan serviceman dashed to help sick Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas after he suddenly collapsed at a railway station.
The mystery member of the armed forces missed his train after calling an ambulance and rushing to help the stricken TV star.
Thomas has now publicly thanked him after dramatically collapsing at the station at Norwich.
The 44-year-old had been due back in his native Norfolk to host Norwich City's end of season dinner on Monday night.
Despite feeling ill in the morning he still caught his train because he didn't want to let the Championship club down.
But Thomas took a turn for the worse in East Anglia and ended up keeling over on the platform.
Simon, whose father was an Anglican minister in Norfolk, tweeted: "To whoever the chap from the armed services was who came to my help when I collapsed at Norwich station on Monday afternoon and stayed with me (and missed your train) - thank you so much."
The Norwich City fan and former Blue Peter presenter later tweeted he did not remember very much about the drama.
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"My sister was on the scene so she knows a lot more than me," admitted Simon.
His younger sister Becky Coman, 43, had been asked by his wife Gemma to pick him up from the station after he'd deteriorated.
Mrs Coman, a teaching assistant at Town Close Preparatory School, Norwich, said she found her ailing brother in a bad way.
Becky, of Mulbarton, said: "He was trying to pull himself up on one of the salt grit containers.
"Simon knew who I was but he was confused as to where he was and had no strength to stand.
"A really lovely guy, who had just got on the train, asked me if we were all right.
"He said he was in the armed forces and offered to take his pulse.
"He helped me get him lying down, used my phone to call an ambulance and put his coat on Simon."
She added: "I didn't get the chance to say thanks or ask him what his name was.
"When Simon was a bit better I told him this nice guy had missed his train and so he wanted to find a way to thank him.
"They have put it down to a virus and he's recovering at home now."
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