British TV legend rushed to hospital after paramedics ‘went white’
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TV legend Anne Diamond has revealed she was forced to skip her GB News shows because she was rushed to hospital.
Anne, 69, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022, said the paramedics ‘turned white’ when they treated her.
She said they discovered the presenter had ‘stonkingly’ high blood pressure and needed to be taken to hospital.
Anne, who hosted the original Good Morning Britain TV-AM and was a panellist on Loose Women, also advised her viewers to regularly take their blood pressure.
On her GB News programme today, she said: ‘Some of you have been asking why I’ve been off. The reason I’ve been off was a lot to do with stonkingly high blood pressure.
‘While that wasn’t the whole problem, and I’m still yet to get a proper diagnosis, it was an enormous part of the problem.
Anne Diamond has not been presenting her usual GB News show (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
She said was forced to pull out after a health scare (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
‘I didn’t realise that I had such incredibly high blood pressure. When the paramedics saw it they sort of went white and said, “Well, you’re off to hospital.” And that was that.’
Anne also issued an urgent warning and advised everyone to regularly check their blood pressure.
She said: ‘It just made me think because wherever you go nowadays, in the doctor’s surgery or in a pharmacy, there’s always a notice up about it.
‘And it doesn’t matter how young you think you are, you ought to take your blood pressure. It’s an easy thing to do and all the rest of it, but it’s clearly an enormous thing blood pressure.’
Anne said her blood pressure was ‘stonkingly’ high (Picture: AARON CHOWN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Last June, Anne revealed she had breast cancer and was diagnosed on the same day she was awarded an OBE.
She told Dan Wootton Tonight she underwent a double mastectomy and had been through a ‘hell of a journey.’
Anne said: ‘It was a wonderful moment [being notified about the OBE] and that was like 9.30 in the morning.
‘But I knew then, because I’d already seen my GP, that I had to go to a breast cancer screening thing later in the morning. I thought I would just go for a mammogram, and a couple of tests and I’d be free in an hour.
Paramedics, who turned ‘white’, rushed her to hospital (Picture: TV Times via Getty Images)
‘I spent the entire morning at my local hospital where they did everything, biopsies, X-rays, CT scans, a couple of mammograms, everything, and by lunchtime I was still there.
‘And a lovely lady came with a lanyard around her neck that said MacMillan Cancer Care and I knew then it was serious.’
She continued: ‘God, this is the first time I’ve talked about it, so it’s quite difficult but I’ve had the full works. The first operation I had was nine hours long.
‘I don’t remember it. I was in and out like that, but nine hours of removal and rebuild, that took a lot of getting over and then I had an operation later where they took out lymph nodes as well, just to make sure they can trace the travel, if the cancer has travelled at all to the rest of the body. Luckily I don’t think it did.
‘I’ve had a load of radiotherapy, which I found very hard too.
She urged everyone to check their blood pressure regularly (Picture: TV Times/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
‘So it’s been a journey, but I’m not pretending for a minute that I am extraordinary, because I am fully aware that a quarter of women in this country are going through what I’ve just gone through and I don’t have any advice to give. I only have empathy.’
Anne was awarded the OBE in the 2023 New Years Honours for her work for public health and safety.
In her on screen work, the journalist also presented Good Morning Britain and Good Morning with Anne and Nick for BBC One.
Anne has also been a presenter on radio shows on LBC, Radio Oxford, BBC London and BBC Berkshire, as well as appearing on panel shows like Loose Women and The Wright Stuff.
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