MALVERN Theatres will miss out on playing host to the entertainer and entrepreneur Adam Faith, after the star died of a massive heart attack at the weekend.

The actor and 60s pop star was due to appear in Love and Marriage at Malvern Theatres between Monday and Saturday, April 14 to 19.

Faith was to play Bill, a dentist with an eye for the ladies in Donald Churchill's play about how different couples cope with marriage.

The production was on tour and Faith was taken ill after Friday night's performance at the Regent's Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent.

"The emergency services were called and he was taken to hospital," said Faith's agent Alan Field.

"He was in cardiac arrest at the hospital and he never regained consciousness."

The singer, aged 62, died at around 2am on Saturday, March 8.

However, the show at the Regent's Theatre went on without the star as a tribute to him.

"He was a delight to work with and will be greatly missed," said a statement issued by staff at the theatre.

"After lengthy discussion with the company and his agent, a decision has been made to go ahead with the matinee and evening performances.

"It was agreed that this is what Adam would have wanted, that the show must go on."

No one was available for comment at Malvern Theatres to confirm that the show would go on there.

Faith, born Terry Nelhams, topped the charts with hits What Do You Want and Poor Me.

Moving into television in the 70s he starred in Budgie as the cheeky cockney trying to go straight, before he became a financial investments adviser in the 80s.

He was declared bankrupt last year after digital television venture The Money Channel collapsed.

The entertainer had a history of heart trouble undergoing open-heart surgery in 1986.

Faith who lived in Tudeley in Kent, leaves a wife, Jackie and daughter Katya.