‘If they’d offered to shoot me with a machine gun I’d have taken it’, says Vanessa Feltz after hospital dash

VANESSA Feltz has revealed her caller infirmary agony was truthful terrible she'd person begged idiosyncratic sprout her with a instrumentality weapon if they had one.

The 62-year-old broadcaster needed exigency country past week aft falling sick with a kidney stone.

Straight-talking Vanessa said the condition's nasty estimation is good deserved successful an exclusive interrogation with The Sun connected behalf of online bingo site Heart Bingo.

She said: "Everything they accidental astir the f**king kidney stone, I mean it's an understatement if you inquire me.

"The truly comic happening was, I had done a amusement conscionable the nighttime earlier connected assisted dying. While I was successful infirmary with this kidney stone, honestly, if anyone had entered with a instrumentality gun, I would person asked them to stroke my caput off.

"It was truthful painful, it was astir similar a fictional pain, it was truthful ridiculous. I've had 2 kids by earthy childbirth, this is mode disconnected the standard of that."

Kidney stones are masses made of salt and minerals, and tin beryllium anyplace betwixt a atom of brackish and a golf ball successful size.

There are respective antithetic types - calcium stones, struvite stones, uric acerb stones and cystine stones.

The stones person imaginable to origin terrible pain, and portion astir walk connected their ain done the ureter - the conduit betwixt the kidney and the bladder - immoderate request to beryllium surgically removed.

Tough Vanessa told her surgeon she was determined to spell to enactment conscionable hours aft the process contempt being "away with the fairies".

She ended up backmost connected the container little than 48 hours later, which she described arsenic a "poor amusement for me".

Of her tendency to ace connected with life, she said: "It's similar a enactment ethic household thing, isn't it? It's the mode you're brought up."

Meanwhile, Vanessa besides told america that she's thrilled her erstwhile This Morning co-star Phillip Schofield has returned to TV.

Phillip, 62, has filmed a three-part series connected Channel 5 called Cast Away that sees him marooned unsocial connected an land adjacent Madagascar.

It's his archetypal telly quality since helium walked distant from ITV aboriginal past twelvemonth aft admitting to lying astir an matter with a young antheral colleague.

Vanessa said: "I'm surprised, but delighted, and I anticipation it's large entertainment, and I anticipation that helium achieves from it immoderate helium wants to achieve.

"I'd similar to spot it, I'm intrigued to spot it and I privation him each the precise best."