Jason Donovan insists he's no hero for going to his neighbours' aid during a house fire. Earlier this year he also assisted a woman who had collapsed near his home. Photo / Getty images
Jason Donovan insists he's no hero for going to his neighbours' aid during a house fire. Earlier this year he also assisted a woman who had collapsed near his home. Photo / Getty images
Jason Donovan leapt out of bed in just his pants to save his neighbours from a fire last weekend.
The 51-year-old actor was woken from his sleep at the London home he shares with wife Angela and their three children and when he looked out of the window, he sawthe house opposite was ablaze.
His manager, Sam Wright, said: "He'd been at a gig on Saturday night. I left him around two o'clock in the morning.
"[Two-and-a-half hours later] There was noise [which woke him] and he looked out the window and there was what you don't want to see — a fire over the road, literally opposite.
Without stopping to dress, the Too Many Broken Hearts singer grabbed the fire extinguisher he keeps at home for emergencies, ran across the road and began to tackle the blaze — which appeared to have been caused by an electrical fault — before the fire brigade turned up "really quickly".
Modest Jason insisted he didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
Sam added to Daily Mail newspaper columnist Sebastian Shakespeare: "Jason said the people over the road are horrified that they've had a fire in their house.
He stayed with her for around 15 minutes, during which he iced her cheek and called emergency services to find out the best way to help.
A source said at the time: "The woman was in a bit of a state.
"Jason was with her for around 15 minutes until the paramedics arrived. "He stayed with her while they treated her on the pavement, but the other bystanders left.
"It looked like he was on the phone to 999 while they were waiting.
"I think he went home to get some ice because he was holding a bag of it against her cheek.
"She had a very nasty, large bruise from where she had fallen."
Jason is believed to have stayed with the woman until paramedics arrived on scene, but insisted he is "no hero" and was just doing what anyone else would have done.
