Fergie`s bodyguard helps save ill airline passenger

Black Eyed Peas star Fergie and husband Josh Duhamel have praised their bodyguard after he helped save a man's life.

The couple were on board a flight from New York to Los Angeles when the plane had to be diverted due to a passenger's medical emergency.

Sources on the late-night flight told TMZ.com that a passenger began vomiting, then had a seizure.

Fergie and Duhamel's bodyguard, Pascal, rushed to help flight attendants move the passenger into the aisle.

A doctor, who happened to be on board, performed CPR; then Pascal moved the man to the back of the plane, where flight attendants attached him to a heart monitor.

The flight was diverted to Las Vegas, where the passenger was taken off and rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

When the star couple finally arrived at Los Angeles airport Duhamel told waiting reporters: 'Our man Pascal saved him. He's a hero.'