Vanessa Feltz has given a health update after she was rushed to hospital at the weekend. The veteran broadcaster, 62, took to Instagram on Monday morning to share an emotional video from her hospital bed revealing she was recovering from surgery after she “doubled over in agony” while playing with her young grandchildren on Sunday. Feltz said that the culprit was a “big kidney stone” which was discovered after a scan and “astoundingly painful”.
A decision was swiftly made to then remove it. Recalling what had happened in the clip, she told her 392,000 followers: “Good morning from hospital! Bit of a surprise. Yesterday I was absolutely fine, completely fine and I had the children Saskia and the babies over for lunch and I was completely fine and not anything wrong with me at all.
“And then suddenly, I got this pain and it was just absolutely extraordinary, I’ve never had anything and I've given birth to two children naturally, never had any pain like that in my life and suddenly went from completely normal to doubled over in proper agony.” Feltz went on to share that she had been forced to call in sick to her LBC show on Sunday evening, which she said was an indication of just how bad the situation was. She explained: “I was meant to be presenting a show on LBC from 6-9 and I'm normally quite a trooper at this stuff.
I could be ill and take paracetamol and just rock on but there was no way I could so I just couldn’t. “Luckily managed to get seen at h.