Paddy Doherty: My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star rushed back to hospital following Covid news
PADDY DOHERTY has been rushed back to hospital, after suffering a shortness of breath following his coronavirus diagnosis three weeks ago.
Paddy Doherty thanks nurses and doctors after hospital release
Paddy Doherty, 62, is back in hospital and on oxygen after suffering from pneumonia and Covid-19. The Big Fat Gypsy Weddings star posted on his Facebook page that he was struggling with shortness of breath, after contracting coronavirus just weeks ago.
Be careful everyone
Medics gave the bare-knuckle boxer just a 50 per cent survival rate at the time of his original diagnosis.
He has now returned to the Countess of Chester Hospital after having breathing issues
In the footage, Paddy said: “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."
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"Catch you all later. Be lucky."
Last month, Paddy, who lives in Chester, said he would be “forever” indebted to the NHS for saving his life.
In an interview with the Daily Star, he said: “The doctors and nurses were all around me.
“I felt like I was paralysed in my body because I couldn’t do anything.
“I couldn’t raise my hand, my head or even speak. I had no strength.
“The doctors were putting all these drips in me and I thought, ‘This is it.'
"They gave me some drugs and said if they didn’t work I’d have to go on a ventilator and that I had a 50/50 chance of survival but they told me they thought I could beat it.”
Paddy is best known for appearing in My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, which aired on Channel 4 back in 2010 before coming to an end five years later.
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The show followed the lives and traditions of several British traveller families, as they prepared to unite members in marriage.
Paddy was born to Irish traveller parents and moved around Manchester, and did not attend school as a youngster.
In 2011 he appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and beat Kerry Katona to win the series.
Four years ago he returned to screens in a Channel 5 series about traveller life from a child’s perspective.
At the height of his fame, Paddy admitted to having a breakdown after he became “afraid” to go anywhere.
Paddy told Irish Mirror: “I had a breakdown, I was afraid to go to the pub and afraid to go anywhere. I had a counsellor and all.
“It took control of everything and I am not ashamed to say that.
“You couldn’t have given me a million pounds to say that once upon a time but I did have a severe breakdown and I am alright now,” he added.