It’s not goodnight from him just yet

The 83-year-old underwent tests for several days last week after reportedly being taken to hospital.

Corbett was said to have fallen ill at his home near Croydon in south London last Sunday when he suffered chest and stomach pains and felt nauseous.

But his wife Anne has insisted he is feeling “fine”, and that his hospital visit was for a check-up.

She said: “It’s all lies, he wasn’t rushed to hospital at all. He went in for tests, that’s all.”

She had been quoted as saying Corbett “won’t be doing any more TV”, but she denied saying “anything of the sort”.

She said: “I had my elderly sister on the phone asking, ‘Is Ronnie okay?’ because she read about it in the paper and I said, ‘Yes, he’s fine, he brought me a cup of tea this morning’.

“We didn’t know what was wrong. He was feeling sick in his stomach and he wasn’t well.

“The hospital ran lots of tests. He was in there for several days.”

Corbett was discharged in time to attend the memorial of close friend Sir David Frost at Westminster Abbey on Thursday, where he read a prayer.

It was on Sir David’s 1960s show The Frost Report that Corbett rose to fame and he met fellow comedian Ronnie Barker.

The pair went on to forge one of Britain’s best-loved TV partnerships in their long-running sketch show The Two Ronnies.

Corbett has suffered health scares before.

He has had a knee operation and collapsed on New Year’s Day in 2012 during a family meal, and was put on medication after being diagnosed with low blood pressure.

His doctor also sent him to the Priory clinic because of fears over his health, but Corbett later said his visit had lasted just 10 minutes.