A Love Island star has taken to social media to explain how lucky he is after his "throat closed" during a flight.
Jack Fowler shared on his Instagram that he suffered an allergic reaction after being served nuts twice during a flight on a Qatar Airways plane. The TV star-turned-singer said he told his air hosts "five times" about his allergies.
After he picked his meals for the flight, he was served pastries with nuts on them, although he spotted them before eating them. He wrote: "I told @qatarairways hostesses five times I was anaphylactic to nuts (life-threatening allergy). As well as asking for reassurance when every meal was served to me, that it was nut free.
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"To be given nuts TWICE is such a massive failure from @qatarairways. Within seconds I couldn’t breathe properly after eating the crushed pistachio nuts beneath my vanilla ice cream. My throat closed and my tongue felt like it was swelling.
"I was told the vanilla ice cream was my safest option. It wasn’t. @qatarairways you have failed in so many ways. I’m extremely lucky. The next person might not be."
Other celebs chimed in, with fellow Love Island star Wes Nelson commenting: "This is a joke. Glad you’re good bro."
DJ Tom Zanetti said: "That’s insane."
A Qatar Airways spokesperson told the ECHO: "Passenger health and safety is of paramount importance to Qatar Airways and we require all passengers with severe food allergies to notify the airline no less than 48 hours in advance of flying with a completed medical information form (MEDIF) as instructed on our website.
"The airline will work with the passenger to reduce the risk of contamination but as flights are public, an allergen-free environment is not guaranteed. We are aware of an issue concerning a passenger who had a reaction to nuts on board and are investigating the incident."
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