Former star has revealed he has been rushed back to hospital with a mystery illness.
Earlier this month, the TV personality, 30, suffered a scare after his self-confessed
Chris, who rose to fame on Love Island in 2017, has now shared that he was rushed back to hospital and had a friend stay with him for 10 hours overnight as he received treatment.
Alongside snaps of him lying in a hospital bed, Chris wrote: ‘Took a turn Wednesday, the NHS staff were incredible.
‘Not just caring, friendly and all the thing you’d expect, but more the way they conduct themselves.
‘The situations they deal with day in day out, and the way they’re spoken to on occasions shocked me.
‘Their patience is incredible and the staff are amazing. Really are unsung heroes so thank you.’
Chris went on to give his thanks to a close pal who ‘sat beside me for 10 hours through the night on a plastic chair without a second of sleep.’
‘I think I could count on one hand the people who would have done that for me,’ he said.
‘Maybe one and a half hands. On the mend anyway x.’
Chris had previously said he had ‘learned his lesson’ after being diagnosed with alcoholic hepatitis.
The condition – which is unrelated to infectious hepatitis – is serious and potentially life-threatening that can be caused by alcohol misuse over a significant period of time, or, less commonly, if you binge a lot of alcohol in a shorter session.
What is alcoholic hepatitis?
Alcoholic hepatitis is a stage of alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD), which refers to liver damage caused by excess alcohol intake.
Symptoms do not usually occur until the liver is already severly damaged, and they can be:
- yellowing of the whites of the eyes or skin (jaundice)
- swelling in the ankles and tummy
- feeling sick
- weight loss
- loss of appetite
- confusion or drowsiness
- vomiting blood or passing blood in your stools
recommends you tell your GP if you regularly drink alcohol to excess so they can test for liver damage.
Alcoholic hepatitis is usually caused by alcohol misuse after a long period of time, but it can also occur after binge drinking in a short period.
Liver damage from mild alcoholic hepatitis is usually reversible if you stop drinking permanently, but severe alcoholic hepatitis is a life-threatening illness.
Chris was also chronically dehydrated and said the intense bursts of exercise he’d done in the couple of days after his night out made the situation worse and that he had been ‘torturing his body’ through his determination to sweat the alcohol out.
Sharing a picture in a hospital gown and beanie hat and hooked up to an IV drip, Chris wrote earlier this month: ‘So basically, all my antics on Saturday have caused this. When I was posting away about running that 4k, I was not truly hungover Sunday and Monday, but I was ‘chronically dehydrated and have alcohol hepatitis’… (not cool, not at all) where essentially my liver is damaged and couldn’t consume the alcohol assumptions [sic] and the bloods have also showed that.’
Revealing his gratitude to the medics that had treated him, he continued in a second story: ‘Our NHS are insanely good, as we know. They’ve been thorough and over the top friendly which to me is the perfect combo.
‘I haven’t managed to consume water that’s why I’m on this drip, a sip of water makes me feel sick.’
, who also works with broadcasters BBC, ITV and Sky Sports on cricket and golf events too, admitted: ‘I am ruined. I’ve learned my lesson.
‘My issue though, quite clear. Went for that run Sunday and I went to a class Monday and did a 45 minute circuit, burnt 550 calories then went to sauna to sweat again for 45 minutes. Thinking I’m getting the alcohol out but in fact I was just torturing my body [sic].’
