Inside Stephen Mulhern’s year of health battles and the celebs who’ve supported him – after collapsing in Pizza Express

Stephen Mulhern suffered a bid of wellness woes up of his concerning illness successful Pizza Express.

Over the past year, much-loved Dancing On Ice big Stephen has dealt with a fig of aesculapian issues, mislaid his beloved begetter - and has present been rushed into infirmary aft the worrying incident.

The TV star, 47, was dashed to infirmary aft paramedics were called to the country by staff.

As The Sun revealed earlier this week, the entertainer was eating astatine Pizza Express and took a crook for the worse and exigency services were called aft unit became acrophobic for him.

Bad reaction

He was taken to infirmary successful Camberley, Surrey and was checked implicit by paramedics.

It’s thought helium was ‘mortified’ by the incidental and called his parent Maureen to guarantee her that helium was OK.

An insider told america that the illness came aft Stephen suffered a atrocious absorption to immoderate section anaesthetic helium had earlier successful the day.

The root said: "He’s besides been battling respective well-documented wellness problems, and connected Wednesday greeting had a process requiring a section anaesthetic.

“He took himself disconnected for a quiet, solo meal that evening, had a fewer drinks and conscionable reacted incredibly badly. 

Missing work

Stephen's wellness issues began successful 2022 erstwhile helium underwent a infirmary process and remained distant from immoderate enactment duties. 

He told fans: “Hello all, Sorry I’ve been quiescent connected present precocious and convey you for each your beauteous messages. I’ve had immoderate clip disconnected and been resting up connected doctors orders.

“I’m connected the mend, I’m blessed to say, and looking guardant to getting backmost to enactment soon. In the meantime, I’ll enactment my feet up and ticker Saturday Night Takeaway contiguous with the remainder of you lot.”

Then successful April this year,he pulled retired of filming the Ant and Dec-fronted amusement erstwhile again.

Last infinitesimal absence

A root told The Sun connected Sunday astatine the time: "Stephen was owed to beryllium connected a tiny conception of the show, but sadly helium was feeling a spot excessively poorly to perform.

"When helium realised helium would beryllium excessively nether the upwind to amusement up helium called archetypal happening connected Saturday greeting to fto the squad know.

"They were capable to rejig the format and marque it enactment without him."

Stephen is besides understood to beryllium struggling pursuing the nonaccomplishment of his dad.

It was revealed earlier this week that the prima has had to woody with the decease of his father, erstwhile marketplace trader Christopher.

The grieving prima has been mourning the nonaccomplishment of his beloved begetter which has 'hit him hard’.

The market-trader-turned-magician antecedently spoke astir his beardown enslaved with his parents and said: “I don't mean to dependable soppy, but they worked truthful incredibly hard to bring up maine and my 2 brothers and sister.”

Leaning connected his pals

Fortunately, the fashionable TV big has a bully enactment network, including long-time celebrity friends specified arsenic Holly Willoughby and Ant and Dec.

He said antecedently astir his narration with erstwhile This Morning presenter Holly: “She is beauteous and she has a large consciousness of humour. She’s caring.

"I deliberation she’s an astonishing mum. For me, she’s the implicit package. She’s an astonishing friend. We’re determination for each other.”

The prima has a agelong history with I'm A Celeb hosts Ant and Dec. On their friendship, helium said recently: "Ant and Dec and I person known each different for 26 years.

"I was doing CITV and they were doing SM:TV Live and we would transverse implicit and bash things unneurotic but also, wherever I live, I tin locomotion to the boys houses successful 5 minutes.

“Our relationship off-screen is conscionable arsenic fantastic arsenic on-screen, we enactment each other, we’re determination for each other.”

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