Sam Thompson’s heartache as he was forced to leave sister Louise’s hospital bedside to fly out to I’m A Celebrity
SAM Thompson was forced to leave his sister Louise’s hospital bedside to fly out to I’m A Celebrity.
The 32-year-old jetted to Australia this week as he prepares to co-host a new spin-off series with Joel Dommett and Capital radio host Kemi Rodgers.
Sam – who won I’m A Celeb last year – has committed to relaunching Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly’s ITV2 sister show.
However, nine days ago his best pal and sibling Louise was rushed in for emergency surgery after suffering excruciating pain in her abdomen.
It means Sam will spend the next four weeks 10,000 miles away from Louise, who he lives next door to.
Breaking her silence on the secret stint in hospital, Louise said: “It’s World kindness day. The world feels like it’s been a bit unkind to me again.
“But today is a new day. And that hopefully means home.”
“I really hate to say it but I’ve been back in hospital feeling very poorly (I feel like the word ‘poorly’ warrants the label of an Onomatopoeia – everything about it resembles elderly, frail illnessy stuff). As I say it I feel like a grandma blowing out bubbles for words. It looks and sounds sick. Like I did. Even though I’m also confusingly only 34 and incredibly strong. Mentally and physically STRONG. If I do say so myself.
“I’m almost embarrassed at this point. BUT there is light. There have been beacons of kindness EVERYWHERE.”
“It’s been needed because oh goodness me it’s been quite scary seeing my body laden with so many foreign objects. I’m amazed I even managed to move with all that in at one point.
“I literally had a tail dangling out of me. Stitched in. In fact I felt like an octopus with multiple legs or tubes (turns out a cannula with different entry points is called an octopus too). Great minds. Or a great subconscious mind and memory of mine.
“Ahhh the joy of heavy heavy opioids for getting me through the worst of it. Thank goodness for poppies. Thank goodness for science. Thank goodness for modern medicine.”
Sam had his own dash to see medics before his flight – as he begged doctors for sleeping pills.
Speaking on his Staying Relevant podcast, Sam said: “The timings are quite awkward because obviously we are live in UK time.
“So we go to bed at 4pm every day in Australia and wake up at midnight.
“Which is going to be wild.”
His podcast co-host Pete Wicks agreed and added: “Yeah you’re going to be all over the shop, and you don’t cope well with change,” as Sam agreed: “I really don’t.”
Pete – who is competing on Strictly this year – continued: “You don’t cope well with change and what Sam said to me when he told me this last week is ‘I’ve just been to the doctor and I’ve got 24 sleeping pills.'”
Sam giggled and said: “Just in case.”