Loose Women star forced to miss event as eye is bandaged up

Olivia Attwood was forced to miss out on the Loose Women party (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

Loose Women panellist Olivia Attwood has been forced to miss out on their Christmas party due to an eye injury.

The Love Island star, who regularly appears on the ITV programme alongside the likes of Linda Robson and Coleen Nolan, shared a picture of her eye bandaged up.

She wrote: ‘Was meant to be off to @loosewomen Christmas lunch.. but my eye had other ideas.’

Meanwhile, the likes of Christine Lampard and Judi Love were spotted on social media at the event, which included a festive quiz and Christmas meal.

The 32-year-old didn’t go into further details on her injury, but earlier this year spoke about the medical news which forced her to quit I’m A Celebrity last year, after just 24 hours.

Shortly after her axe, Olivia told Jamie Laing’s Private Parts podcast: ‘It was basically a massive f**k up really. I was in there, I was fine, and they do routine medicals every few days.

Olivia shared a picture with her eye bandaged up (Picture: Instagram)

She didn’t detail the extent of the injury (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

‘We’d had a really long day and I’m always on the lower end of blood pressure because I’m tall and slim, and they just did all these tests late one evening, and they were just like, they were worried about these tests.

‘They were like, “Everything is really low”.‘

She added she got the all-clear from a hospital: ‘They took me to a private hospital and they tested me, and they were like, “We’re happy.” So we had an overnight debate because the insurers were like, “The tests dropped this low.”

‘The hospitals sometimes say, “Take it with a pinch of salt,” and the insurance said no because if she collapses… So it was basically red tape.’

The Love Island star was forced to quit I’m A Celebrity (Picture: ITV)

Olivia wept all the way back from the jungle following the devastating news: ‘I don’t cry… and I cried the whole way back from Australia – the whole flight.’

Recently on Loose Women, panellist Katie Piper shared her own medical update after having her eye sewn shut.

The presenter, 40, suffered life-changing injuries and burns, including in one eye, after an acid-attack in 2008, and has since undergone recovery treatments and surgeries.

She’d previously explained that the surgery she underwent was to ‘preserve the eye, avoid perforation and losing my eye completely’.

Katie marked her return to Loose Women last week, where she explained: ‘I’ve had a lot of problems with my eye in the last year and a half, I don’t like to go on about it because there’s always somebody worse off.

‘It’s been quite painful so it’s quite a relief for me to finally have it stitched up, because it’s a lot more comfortable.

‘It’s not permanent, it’s going to be for just about a year like this then hopefully I can have it opened.’

Loose Women airs weekdays from 12.30pm on ITV.

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She was forced to skip the event.