Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty, 61, is seriously ill with Covid and pneumonia in hospital – as son asks fans to ‘keep my father in prayer’
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty is seriously ill in hospital with pneumonia and coronavirus, his family revealed today.
Doctors have placed the 61-year-old Celebrity Big Brother winner on oxygen to help him fight the infection after he was admitted to hospital yesterday.
Doherty’s son Simey wrote on Facebook: ‘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.’
And 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].’
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My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty is pictured in Epsom, Surrey, in October 2017
Celebrity Big Brother winner Doherty is pictured at his home in North Wales in October 2017
Doherty leaves the Celebrity Big Brother house after winning the show in September 2011
