A star of ITV’s This Morning has been rushed to hospital after being involved in a “nightmare” incident while competing in a 1,000 mile boat race
A star of This Morning has been left ‘gutted’ after being rushed to hospital following a “nightmare” incident.
One individual who has become a fan favourite on This Morning in recent years is former X Factor contestant Jake Quickenden. Often seen hosting segments with members of the public across the UK, Jake has truly made the role his own.
On Saturday (July 11), I’m A Celebrity star Jake revealed on Instagram that he sustained an injury while participating in the Yukon 1000 boat race. Jake and fitness trainer Matty Green were compelled to pull out of the legendary race after Jake injured his wrist, reports the Manchester Evening News.
“It was fun while it lasted, I can say was the most amazing, scary and utterly bonkers 36 hours I’ve had in my life. Already so p***** off ready to try again next year.
“Sometimes the universe tells you something isn’t right and this time I listened and we had to get out, I wanted to get home to my kids and wife, I lost my dad young and it affects me everyday I didn’t want that for my lads,” Jake expressed.
Initially ‘flying out of the blocks’, Jake disclosed that they were hit by a wave and ended up in the water during their challenge.
“I couldn’t get my spray deck off and was under water what seemed like three minutes when I came up I was pretty panicked and we had to swim the boat back to the side luckily we wasn’t in the middle or it could have been bad, got the water out, the boat got dry and managed to set off again after losing about an hour, just when we got moving the pedal of the boat snapped and we couldn’t turn left.
“This is when I was like is this meant to be, I believe in all that stuff and felt like we were being told to get out, we didn’t listen we fixed the boat but by this time the storm had hit and we needed to camp to shelter from the wind and rain and the lake which if we hadn’t have gone in we would have been off was now too dangerous to paddle on and I’m so glad we don’t risk trying.
“We camped bear spray in hand and woke up around 3.30am after now losing 8 hours of time. We packed up got in the boat and wanted to push on we finished the 17k of the lake and we was on the river and ready to push on and try and make the cut off time, as we was celebrating making the river, we hit a boiling eddy that pulled us under and spat us out like nothing,” he recounted.
Jake went on: “We came up and was about to go down the river for I don’t know how long (which could have been bad) when out of nowhere again like it was meant to happen. Kyle and Mel, two American travellers who just happened to have finished fishing, jumped in the canoe and pulled us to the side.
“They were honestly angels and I personally think they stopped something really bad from happening. We got dry and realised I had a pretty beat up wrist and a broken boat and after 4 bits of bad luck we should call it.
“So we called it and for me and Matty that’s a hard thing to do, we knew we probably wouldn’t make the cut off time in Dawson, not with the boat and my wrist, and like I said something felt off like it was trying to get us off that river every time something went good something terrible brought us back down to earth.”
Acknowledging that ‘sometimes you fail that’s life’, Jake expressed his gratitude to his fans for their ‘love and support’, stating that he ‘learnt more over 48 hours than ever before’.
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