Reality TV star Paddy Doherty has been taken to hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack. The 62-year-old star of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings said he was forced to stay in a hospital hallway but thanked the NHS for taking good care of him.
He told his fans in a video from his hospital bed of his gratitude to medical staff after saying he had a heart attack. He said: "Without them, we wouldn't survive."
He added that he "looked and felt 100 times better" after a shave and brushing his teeth, BirminghamLive reports. But he also told fans that while he wouldn't say he was 'great', he was getting there and is trying to stay positive.
He said: “I’ve got to stop drinking, stop messing about, and enjoy my life the way I was enjoying my life. A lot of people do things in life they shouldn’t do."
Paddy described nurses and doctors as "angels of God" and admitted he had been drinking too much beer and hadn't been respecting his wife and family.
In the message, he said: "Hello everybody. I look better now, shaved, brushed teeth. Feeling ten times better. Imagine two days in the hallway, it was not just me there was a rake of people here.
"To see them stuck in a corridor. One man was pulling the blankets off, bless him he didn't know.
"I kept saying you've got to cover up. We haven't got the safe facilities for him. Then the man wanted the toilet but there wasn't anything for him in the hallway.
"The sad thing about it, two days. It was like a traffic zone!
"They get no breather and no thanks. The NHS are god's angels; they fight for what they are doing with their heart and soul. Without them the world wouldn't even survive."
Doherty was hospitalised after becoming infected with COVID-19 in January 2021. The former Celebrity Big Brother winner said he thought he was "indestructible" but the virus had left him "knocked out for the last couple of days".
