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LOS ANGELES
Thu Jun 5, 2008 2:25am EDT
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former "Cheers" and "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer was released from a hospital in Hawaii on Wednesday, four days after suffering what was described as a mild heart attack, People magazine reported.

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Grammer, 53, is "resting comfortably" at his home on Hawaii's Big Island, People quoted the actor's spokesman as saying.

He had chest pains on Saturday while paddle-boarding with his wife, Camille, and was taken to a hospital, where he was found to have suffered a heart attack.

Grammer was stricken a few weeks after the Fox network canceled his new show, "Back to You," in which he starred as a pompous, womanizing TV news anchor. The series made it for only one season.

Grammer gained fame portraying the sherry-swilling shrink Dr. Frasier Crane for 20 years, initially as a co-star on the NBC comedy hit "Cheers" and then as the star of his own spinoff series.

(Reporting by Dean Goodman; Editing by John O'Callaghan)



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