Rylan Clark has given a health update on his mum Linda (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Rylan Clark has given an update on his mum Linda’s health, after her horror fall earlier this year.
The This Morning star, 35, revealed in September that Linda, 71, was recovering after falling and suffering a broken arm and leg during her first foreign holiday in 10 years.
At the time, he asked fans for help as she struggled to get booked in for surgery with the NHS ‘on its knees’.
Rylan later confirmed that she was on her way to recovery after he took some time off work to care for her, and has now shared an update.
The Big Brother icon said: ‘My mum is doing really really well… she’s really really great.
‘She’s stumbling about Lakeside, so she’s very much back to normal.’
Linda regularly has viewers in bits with her appearances on Celebrity Gogglebox, which she stars on alongside Rylan, though the pair missed the recent series due to her recovery.
Linda suffered a fall while on holiday (Picture: @rylan)
Rylan and Linda Clark have always brought the giggles on Celebrity Gogglebox (Picture: Channel 4)
However he’s assured they’ll be back on our screens soon, continuing to The Sun: ‘I’m sure if Gogglebox comes back, we’ll be back!’
On September 1, the BBC Radio 2 presenter had revealed on social media that he would skip his show saying ‘my priority at the moment is my mum’ after her ‘bad fall’.
Almost two weeks later, he pleaded with fans for help and advice as she was struggling to get booked in for surgery with the NHS ’on its knees’, which was worrying the family given the ‘time sensitive’ nature of her needing her staples removed.
He said at the time: ‘My mum has been home 4 days, tried to book her in private (because luckily I can afford that) for her arm and leg, won’t take her because surgery wasn’t done by them, since Friday have been waiting for the NHS hospital to come back to me, have been number 76 in the Queue since this morning finally get through to be told they haven’t received her referral (which they have).’
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He added: ‘I know the NHS is on its knees at the minute but what on earth would she do without family around her.
‘I’ve now been told there’s nothing else the gp surgery can do (who have been great) so here with my mum in 2 casts, she needs her stitches and staples removed this week, and then her physio can begin, at a loose end here, any advice from doctors/nurses on here would be great thanks x (sic)’
In another update on September 11, he went onto explain: ‘For any confusion, Mum is in a arm cast and has a leg brace on, she has broken her arm and leg in Spain.
‘Spanish surgeon said she needs staples out this week (time sensitive) and I need to pick it up the second we get back…
‘She has to have nurses and care anyway because of her other serious illness which I’ve arranged.’
Celebrity Gogglebox is available to watch on Channel 4.
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Rylan’s mum suffered broken bones after a fall in September.