Carol Vorderman has revealed she was recently rushed to hospital in an ambulance after suffering a horror fall which left her unconscious.
The TV personality, 65, took to Instagram to share a health update after she tripped over a tree root outside her home and ‘smashed onto the tarmac path’ injuring herself.
The Countdown legend explained in a video: ‘I’ve got a bit of a story to tell you about my concussion, which might also explain why I was a bit offline in June.
‘So right at the very end of May, I was walking just outside my house on a public footpath, and I tripped over a tree root, which I didn’t see.
‘And I went smash here on the tarmac path, and I was unconscious.
‘I can’t remember what happened then, but I do know that an ambulance came, and I was taken to the BRI, Bristol Royal Infirmary.
‘By the way, I also know that they were playing the final countdown in the ambulance on the way. It’s another story, but it did make me laugh.’
Carol Vorderman has revealed she was recently rushed to hospital in an ambulance after suffering a horror fall which left her unconscious
Carol went into further detail, noting how she was: ‘Discharged the next day, massive vomiting, all the bad signs.
‘Straight back into hospital, they were wonderful. The A&E did all the CT scans and everything. Out again. I had the biggest black eye or bruises all down my face for three or four weeks.
‘But what it did leave me with after about two or three weeks was dizziness. So I felt as though I was kind of walking on a moving ship, like sort of knocking into the wall a little bit.’
The I’m A Celebrity star explained that she was left feeling like the room was spinning and thanked the ‘Epley technique’ and a lady called Sophie who introduced her to it for helping tackle it.
Carol urged: ‘I am not a doctor. I am not advising people about this, but I’m just telling you what’s happened to me.’
She went on to explain how it is BBPV adding how ‘it’s all about the inner ear and this little sort of sack of crystals that gets dislodged, and she puts it back together again’.
After three sessions with physio Sophie doing the Epley technique, Carol says she has been discharged from the service and ‘couldn’t be happier’.
It comes after Carol revealed she is hoping to go under the knife and have a facelift ‘in the next couple of years.’
The presenter has previously hit back at criticism she’s faced for having Botox to maintain her ageless appearance, and she doubled down on her plans for more surgery in a new interview.
Hitting back at critics of her tweakments, Carol declared she’ll ‘spend her money on what she likes’ and has ‘no issue’ with having surgery in the future.
The TV personality, 65, took to Instagram to share a health update after she tripped over a tree root outside her home and ‘smashed onto the tarmac path’ injuring herself
Speaking to Daily Mail’s Richard Eden, she said: ‘I don’t look as good as I did in my 40s, but I don’t think I look bad for my age.
‘I have Botox and all of those things, and I’m probably going to have a facelift in the next couple of years.’
‘It’s my money, I’ve earned it, so I’ll spend it on what I like. I am accepting of myself, but I also want to look good, and those two things can go together.’
Carol has previously said she has a ‘no f***s given’ approach to ageing as she recounted the abuse she often gets over her appearance.
She told The Sunday Times Magazine in 2024: ‘Everyone on telly has Botox. I look the way I do because it makes me happy.
‘But you get to a point in life where it’s no f***s given. I love what David Bowie said about ageing: “You become the person you always should have been.”
‘My sixties is the age I always should have been. The abuse I get is off the scale but I don’t give a monkey’s. Actually it spurs me on.’
She also told how she has actually never had a boob job but that she went up three cup sizes when she went through menopause.
