Action movie legend Jean-Claude Van Damme has suffered a heart attack, according to a U.S. claim.

The Muscles from Brussels was hospitalised in New Orleans after suffering a minor heart attack the day after his 50th birthday, E! News reported.

Van Damme suffered the heart attack while shooting his latest film called Weapon.

Jean-Claude Van Damme and family arriving at the screening of Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger in Cannes earlier this year

Production on the film had been taking place in Romania until last week when the cast and crew flew to New Orleans for three days of filming.

Shortly after arriving in the U.S. city the entire shoot was put on hold due to 'complications.'

The 'complications' are believed to be the attack suffered by Van Damme and have put the entire shoot on hold.

Classic pose: Jean Claude Van Damme in typically muscular form in 1988's Bloodsport

Van Damme's wife and mother of two of his children, Gladys Portugues, joined him in New Orleans following the event, according to reports.

He was admitted to hospital in New Orleans briefly before being released and returning to Belgium

According to U.S. reports, he is expected to make a full recovery.

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Carolina hospital Monday for a "medication overdose" in the wake of a home-wrecking scandal, her agent told TMZ.com.

Barrino was taken to Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville just before 9 p.m., the celebrity news site reported.

"American Idol" star Fantasia Barrino was rushed to a North. It was unclear whether the OD was intentional or an accident, but her condition was not life threatening.The report comes a day after the star's denials that she came between Antwaun Cook, a married man she met at a T-Mobile store, and his wife.

Cook's wife Paula filed for divorce last week, claiming Barrino and her husband had engaged in a "covert adulterous affair" and made multiple sex tapes together.

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