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actor Ioan Gruffudd learned the hard way that you should never try to drink like the locals when in Australia.

The Fantastic Four star had to be admitted to hospital after watching The Ashes in Brisbane last year. ‘Yes I have even paid an emergency visit to the Royal Brisbane hospital — diagnosis “drama queen”,’ says Gruffudd, 44. ‘It was a serious bout of dehydration, having drunk like a proper mad dog or englishman in the midday sun.’