A post on Facebook from 25 November claims that TV presenter Richard Madeley had been rushed to hospital at 4am “after receiving his booster vaccine”. But there’s no evidence that there’s any link between his hospital visit and the booster vaccination, which he had over a month before this was posted.
It’s true that the 65-year-old was taken to hospital early on Thursday 25 November. The presenter was taking part in ITV’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! at the time and medics on the show called the ambulance.
But there’s no evidence this had anything to do with Mr Madeley having had the Covid-19 booster vaccine. He previously said on an episode of Good Morning Britain on Tuesday 19 October that he’d had his booster “a couple of weeks ago”.
Posting on Instagram, Mr Madeley confirmed on 25 November that after feeling “briefly unwell” in the early hours he was taken to hospital as a precaution but was now “absolutely FINE”.
He also said that he would be leaving the ITV reality programme as he had broken its Covid ‘bubble’ due to the hospital visit.