Rylan Clark’s mum, Linda, has revealed she was rushed to hospital this week after falling at residence amid the UK’s icy temperatures.
The Celeb Gogglebox star, 73, mistook ice for water outdoors, inflicting her to slide and fracture her shoulder.
Talking on her son’s vastly well-liked BBC Radio 2 present on Saturday, Linda advised listeners: ‘I simply went flying, and I damage my arm once more.’
She added that she is ‘so sore’ and now ‘black’ from bruising.
On receiving the worrying name, Rylan, 37, chimed in: ‘Properly, that was a stunning telephone name I bought that morning, you in your solution to the hospital.’
‘But it surely might’ve been worse,’ he reasoned. ‘It might’ve been your arm and your leg, like we’ve had earlier than.’
Having urged his mum to be ‘cautious’, Rylan later thanked listeners for his or her type phrases after many despatched messages of assist.
Assuring followers that she is ‘alright’, he joked: ‘I simply can’t assist her, you realize what she’s like, dashing round doing stuff.’
‘In all equity, although, it was an accident; she simply slipped on some ice.’
Linda’s well being woes have been properly documented, as, up to now, she’s had three main bowel operations. She additionally takes a number of drugs every day to handle her Crohn’s illness, which is a persistent situation that causes the liner of the digestive system to change into infected.
Her decades-long battle with Crohn’s resulted in her dropping her job and now ‘completely dictates her life’.
‘When she was identified, it actually hit her arduous as a result of it wasn’t picked up early sufficient,’ Rylan as soon as defined.
‘The sooner you choose it up, the simpler it’s to regulate. I grew up with the illness as properly as a result of she was unwell – it’s life-threatening. It’s scary.
‘It could possibly be troublesome once I was younger as a result of generally she couldn’t come on college journeys and different occasions she was so embarrassed about her signs that I couldn’t have my mates to remain over.’
What’s extra, in 2018, Linda contracted sepsis, which just about killed her.
Linda is not any stranger to a visit or a fall, both. Final summer season, the previous X Issue star shared a sequence of updates after she was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital with a thriller sickness.
Rylan dipped out of his radio present to be by her aspect, thanking ‘the emergency group’ for taking good care of her.
Hailing his mum as a ‘trooper’, Rylan vowed to maintain followers within the loop, revealing two days later that she had been discharged and was residence to have fun her birthday.
In 2023, Rylan additionally knowledgeable his followers that, whereas holidaying in Marbella, Linda had taken a nasty fall, leaving her requiring pressing surgical procedure.
She was then flown again through non-public airplane, with Rylan thanking everybody for his or her well-wishes and telling them she was ‘on the mend’.
Linda’s newest ordeal comes after a plethora of British TV stars supplied their condolences to Lorraine Kelly, whose father died in a fall on the ice.
The Scottish broadcaster shared in a heartbreaking assertion: ‘Very unhappy information. My dad has died. I’m mourning the person who purchased me a telescope once I was 5 years outdated, who watched the moon landings with me and taught me to at all times be curious and keen on every part.
‘He was unwell but it surely has nonetheless been a shock.’
She added: ‘Any of you who’ve skilled the same loss will understand how my brother Graham and I are feeling. Our precedence is taking good care of my mum and the household would very a lot respect privateness at this distressing time. We are going to miss you dad ❤️’
It was later confirmed that her father, 84-year-old John, had fallen on an ‘icy path’.
In a press release to Metro, a Police Scotland spokesperson confirmed: ‘Round 7am on Saturday, 10 January, 2026, we had been known as to a report of a person discovered injured on a path close to to St Leonard’s Sq. in East Kilbride.
‘The 84-year-old was pronounced useless on the scene a short while later. His household is conscious and are being supported by officers.
‘The dying is being handled as unexplained however not suspicious. A report shall be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal sooner or later.’
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