Chris Evans reveals he was rushed to hospital with kidney stones he mistook for trapped wind

Chris Evans has revealed he was rushed to hospital with kidney stones after mistakenly thinking he had a case of trapped wind.

The radio presenter, 54, spent two nights in hospital following his trip to A&E on Saturday with crippling stomach pains.

Speaking to The Sun, Chris told how ultrasound and CT scans showed he had a large kidney stone which doctors monitored for 48 hours before he was sent home on Monday. 

He said: ‘I thought I had trapped wind and general “man pain” most of Saturday. I took paracetamol and waited for nature to take its course…. that didn’t happen. 

‘Late Saturday night my wife called 111 and we were advised to go to A&E. Which we did. After an ultrasound scan and CT scan, it was clear I had a kidney stone on the move.

‘I was subsequently admitted to a ward where I was looked after until I came back home on Monday evening. I still have the stone, and if it doesn’t come out soon I will need to go back in and have it removed.’

Chris described the doctors, nurses and other medical staff as ‘amazing’ and thanked them for taking care of him.

Kidney stones can develop in one or both kidneys and most commonly effect people between the ages of 30 and 60.

They can be extremely painful and can lead to kidney infections or the kidney not working properly if left untreated, according to the NHS.

Most are small enough to pass on their own but larger ones may need to be broken up or removed with surgery.

Last year, Chris told how he believed he and all of his family had the coronavirus during the early stages of the pandemic after he came down with a ‘weird cold’.

Speaking on his Virgin Radio Breakfast Show, the broadcaster, also admitted that he didn’t self-isolate as none of his symptoms fell in line with the NHS-advised dry cough and high temperature that would warrant quarantining.

The star said – who has sons Noah, 11; Eli, nine, and two-year-old twins Walt and Boo with his golfer wife Natasha Shishmania, 40 – said: ‘I think I’ve had it [coronavirus]. I’m not saying I’m qualified to say this though.

‘So many of us had this really weird cold two or three weeks ago and if four out of five most prominent people on the telly talking about coronavirus, if they can get it – they’re only mild symptoms, a bit of a sniffle and dry cough…’

Explaining his reasons for not going into quarantine, he continued: ‘I didn’t get the fever or the dry cough, that’s why I didn’t self-isolate. Noah had the fever and he self-isolated before we all had to for 14 days. 

‘But by that time, Tash had this cough and almost everybody you saw on telly reporting on the coronavirus looked red-faced and runny-eyed – I think lots of us have had it!’