Brian Blessed (Yui Mok/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Brian Blessed has launched a new campaign which aims to help people recognise the symptoms of heart failure. The actor, 84, recorded a video for the British Society for Heart Failure urging the public to be vigilant over signs of heart failure. He is supporting the charity’s Freedom from Failure – The F Word campaign. Blessed said: “Ultimately, long story short, I have had a pacemaker put in me and I now feel like a man of 20.”