'Dog the Bounty Hunter' Duane Chapman hospitalised after heart emergency, report says

Dog the Bounty Hunter, star of the reality series of the same name, was reportedly hospitalised after a cardiac emergency.

According to TMZ, Duane Chapman (his birth name) started feeling chest pain and was taken from his home in Colorado to a hospital.

A rep for Chapman told the website: ”I can confirm Dog is under doctor’s care and is resting comfortably. Thank you for all of your well wishes – keep ‘em coming.”

More details of Chapman’s condition weren’t immediately available.

The Independent has contacted Chapman’s team for more information.

Chapman appeared on A&E’s Dog the Bounty Hunter, a show that documented his career as a specialist in recovering bail fugitives, from 2004 to 2012.

A spin-off, Dog and Beth: On the Run, aired from 2013 to 2015, featuring the TV star and his wife Beth Chapman.

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Ms Chapman died in June this year of complications from cancer.

She appears posthumously alongside her husband in Dog’s Most Wanted, another spin-off that premiered earlier this month on WGN America.

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