Celebrity Big Brother winner Paddy Doherty is seriously ill in hospital with “double pneumonia” and coronavirus.
The My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding regular, 61, has been placed on oxygen by doctors to help him fight the illnesses.
The news was confirmed in Facebook posts from Paddy’s son David and his wife Roseanne.
David wrote: “Can everybody please keep my father in prayer as I was just speaking to him and he has got double pneumonia also claw seen in the lungs and tested positive for Covid. He’s also on oxygen. Keep my father in prayer. [sic]”
Meanwhile, his wife Roseanne Doherty added: “Please will everything pray for my Paddy he has been taken in to hospital.
“He is not very well. [sic]”
Paddy Doherty is seriously ill in hospital with “double pneumonia” and coronavirus (Image: ITV)
Fans and friends of the family rushed to Rosanne’s emotional social media post to send well wishes to Paddy.
One fan penned: “Oh no sorry to read this. Thinking of Paddy and all of you xx”
A second Facebook user added: “Hope Paddy gets well soon Roseanne” alongside three red love heart emojis.
While a third person posted: “Thoughts and prayers with you all speedy recovery paddy come on you can do this.”
A fourth said: “Please God heal him let paddy be alright with the help of God pray for him amen.”
Paddy’s wife Roseanne asked her Facebook friends and fans to consider posting the Lord’s Prayer on their own profiles
Roseanne went on to ask her Facebook friends and fans to consider posting the Lord’s Prayer on their own profiles.
She penned: “Will you take a coupe of minutes of your time and pray with me.” before sharing the lyrics to Christian prayer.
This comes after Paddy beat prostate cancer in 2019, which saw him go through a six-hour surgery to remove the tumour, which had been leaving him in agony for months.
The star bravely admitted that the pain of the cancer made him consider suicide, but now that he has beaten it, he found a new appreciation for life.
He told the Mirror: “I’m a man’s man but I’m not ashamed to admit when they gave me the all-clear I cried with happiness. I appreciate life so much now it’s unbelievable.
Paddy’s son David has pleaded with fans to keep his dad in their thoughts
“Lots of people used to try to pick fights and I’d be a divvy and fight back. Now I turn the other cheek.”
Paddy is British former bare-knuckle boxer and was one of the Irish Travellers interviewed for the documentary My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.
He won Celebrity Big Brother 8 and went on to appear in When Paddy Met Sally in January 2012 and on Celebrity Bainisteoir later that year.
In 2016 Paddy appeared in this Channel 5 series about Traveller life from the children’s perspective. Paddy talked about the importance of staying on in education for his community.
Paddy is British former bare-knuckle boxer and has gone onto become a television star (Image: FACEBOOK)
This is not the only heartbreak Paddy’s family has had to face in recent times.
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding stars and twins Billy and Joe Smith died in a joint suicide back in 2019.
The siblings were found side by side on 28 December in Sevenoaks following a history of depression.
An inquest into their deaths was told “one didn’t want to leave the other one behind”.
Paddy said on Facebook at the time: “RIP. Please pray for these two dear souls. God rest them in peace.”
A Facebook page paying tribute to the pair has since been set up.
It has shared a number of images of the duo through the years.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
