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TORCHWOOD star John Barrowman rugby-tackled a would-be-thief in a hotel.

The 44-year-old was in the Radisson Blu in Glasgow city centre when he heard a scream.

A woman and her husband had woken up to find two boys ransacking their room in the early hours of yesterday.

John - who will play Robinson Crusoe in panto in the city - tackled one of the fleeing teens along with the concierge.

The thief punched the hotel worker before the Doctor Who star was able to bring him to the ground and subdue him. John had arrived in the hotel minutes earlier after driving up from a concert in Newcastle with his parents.

John, whose parents were in the room opposite the couple who'd been robbed, said: "The concierge was trying to sort my air conditioning.

"We heard this woman scream and shout, 'Stop him, stop him.' We saw this young boy running down the hallway.

"I told the concierge to chase him and called the hotel operator and told them to block the staircase so we could get him.

"The lad had tried to get away through the staff elevator and punched the concierge.

"I grabbed the kid's ankles, yanked him to the ground and then pulled him out into the hallway. I pinned him down.

"My tour manager then arrived and the three of us held him down until the police came." Cops are checking CCTV to find the second thief, who escaped.

Big-hearted John wants to help the robber he caught and has offered him a backstage job in his panto Robinson Crusoe And The Caribbean Pirates, which starts at the Clyde Auditorium on December 17.

He told the Record: "It was sad. He was only 14 or 15. I think he was on drugs.

"But I'd like to find out the boy's story and give him a second chance.

"Maybe he could work in the pantomime over Christmas to give him a sense of responsibility."