My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty has been rushed back to hospital less than three weeks after he returned home following a battle with coronavirus.
The 62-year-old shared a video on Facebook today in which he told his followers he was back at the Countess of Chester Hospital after suffering from shortness of breath.
Mr Doherty is seen struggling to breathe and coughing in the clip, as he says: I ll be out in the morning. Just be careful everyone. I m worse than a cat. A cat s got seven lives, I ve got 100 lives.
He explains his previous Covid-19 infection had caused him to become short of breath , as he continues to take oxygen from a machine throughout the footage.
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty is home from hospital as he continues his recovery from pneumonia and coronavirus.
The 61-year-old Celebrity Big Brother winner shared appeared short of breath in the softly-spoken video from his bedroom at his home on the English Welsh border and praised the doctors and nurses who helped care for him as warriors of God .
Doherty was rushed to hospital last week after an illness worsened, prompting wife Roseanne Doherty to call 999.
He was later diagnosed with pneumonia and coronavirus and admitted to hospital.
In the latest video shared last night, Doherty said: Thank my god. They let me home about half an hour ago.
Paddy’s wife Roseanne Doherty commented: “Please will everything pray for my Paddy - he has been taken in to hospital. He is not very well [sic].”
The 61-year-old won Celebrity Big Brother in 2011 and has opened up in the past about his health struggles.
In 2020, he revealed that he battled prostate cancer for seven months after receiving the all-clear in April.
While taking part in a ten-part travel series with Daniel Coll from Emmerdale, Paddy spoke about the early stages of his cancer and why he decided to go to the doctor.
He explained: “I won’t tell a lie. I was going to the toilet to have a wee. It was slowly coming on and I was having to push harder and harder.
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Doctors have placed 61-year-old Celebrity Big Brother winner Paddy Doherty on oxygen to help him fight the infection after he was admitted to hospital yesterday.