Jeremy Paxman has revealed details of several health scares that took him to A&E three times in the space of 24 hours. The former Newsnight presenter, 72, said he was on “first-name terms” with staff at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital following the ordeal.
In an article written for Saga Exceptional, Paxman wrote: “I was minding my own business, watching a family of squirrels chasing up and down the tree outside my window, when I was seized by a pain in my chest. I have read enough to know that heart attacks are usually accompanied by pains down the arm, though I couldn’t remember which one.
"Since both seemed to be in working order I assumed I was all right. Not all right enough for my partner, who, instantly, deemed I was in need of attention at the A&E department of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where I was speedily admitted and then examined by a quite charming German-born cardiac specialist.”
