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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Carla Feric

Reality star calls on government change after son’s horror ice skating injury

Chloe Lewis is best known for her time on ‘The Only Way is Essex’ - (Getty Images)

Reality TV personality Chloe Lewis is spearheading a campaign for mandatory protective gloves for children ice skating, following a "terrible accident" that saw her six-year-old son lose part of his finger.

The former The Only Way Is Essex star revealed earlier this month that her son, Beau, suffered the severe injury on New Year's Eve. Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Lewis recounted the distressing moment she received the news, describing it as "the call that no parent ever wants to receive about their child, that they’ve been in a terrible accident."

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