RICHARD Madeley made a shock return to Good Morning Britain today – just days after he was forced out of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! due to a health scare.
His co-star Ben Shephard previously said that the 65-year-old star was “too ill” to be on the breakfast show today, but he was back in the studio after all.
Richard looked happy and healthy as he insisted that he is “as fit as a fiddle” following a dramatic few days – but gave the reason behind his “disturbing” medical emergency.
He said that he “wasn’t functioning at all” when he woke up “incoherent” and “unable to string a sentence together”.
Richard was rushed to hospital where he had “every test imaginable” before being given the all clear.
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He ultimately put the scare down to severe dehydration after being awake for 20 hours.
The TV favourite left crew and cast mates terrified when he fell ill in the early hours of Thursday morning, and he was quickly whisked to hospital.
While the TV favourite was then given the all clear to return to camp, he was forced out of the reality show because he’d broken the set’s ultra secure Covid bubble.
Richard admitted it was “simply not an option” for him to go back in amid the show’s stringent safeguarding rules amid the pandemic.
Concerned viewers previously accused the trial of making Richard ill after he was spotted visibly shaking as he complained about being “freezing”.
In a statement, he’d previously admitted to being “gutted” to leave the show after just four days – with his daughter Chloe saying on Instagram that he is “livid”.
However, Richard is expected to pick up his full £200,000 fee because his departure was out of his control, but he insisted on GMB today that he is leaving the finances for his agents to sort out.
