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'Doc drama is making my leg hurt' TELEVISION.


Byline: MARK JEFFERIES Mark Jefferies was a bushranger, serial killer and cannibal in the early 19th century in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). Crimes
Jefferies was known to have murdered and eaten at least four adults during his escape from Macquarie Harbour by land.
 

HUGH Laurie James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born June 11, 1959) is an English actor, comedian and writer, and musician. He is known professionally as Hugh Laurie. Early life and education
Laurie was born in Oxford.
 may be forced to quit his lead role in hit medical drama House - because pretending to limp has given him real injuries.

The part of Dr Gregory House, complete with trademark bad leg, is causing him serious pain.

Laurie, 50, said: "The show might last to series seven, eight or nine but I don't know if I will because I'm starting to lose my knees a little bit.

"It's a lot of hip work.

There's things going badly wrong. I need to do yoga.

"I do actually limp with the other leg every now and then - but it's not to throw the continuity people off. It's to preserve pelvic symmetry."

Laurie is rumoured to earn up to EUR EUR

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro.

Notes:
The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion.
250,000 per episode of the show broadcast in 66 countries. He has won two Golden Globes and has just been nominated for his third Best Actor Emmy.

But the star added: "I have no idea why people like House so much."

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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Sep 21, 2009
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