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TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp says her leg looks like “it has been bitten by a shark” in a health update after she broke it during a walk on a Devon beach.
The Location, Location, Location host, 55, was airlifted to hospital following the fall at Welcombe Mouth beach near the family home at Meadowgate in Devonlast week.
Allsopp posted several photos of her injured leg on Thursday and wrote: “So…1 week & 1 day after the surgery there is quite a lot of feeling in my toes and all the way up my leg, but I’m learning & healing and this exercise in patience and humility may turn out to be good for me.
“I wanted to again say Thank You So Much to everyone who helped me get to today, and for all your kind and cheering messages.”
Allsopp has hired a Game Ready, a cold compression therapy system designed to support early-stage recovery following surgery or acute injury.
She wrote: “I am in bed, but the dog is thrilled, I have hired a gamereadyhireuk which is a genius invention. I highly recommend it.
“I got sent a book by @biscuiteersltd which is very inspiring & we are going to go ahead and film the Christmas show in October as planned.
“I will be sitting down with my leg stuck out, but we’ll work around it.
“Occasionally the boys pop in to chat and bring friends, although next week they will both be at uni, and my leg looks like I’ve been bitten by a shark, but there are grapes & Frasier and I may publish a book called A Leg with a View next year.”
Her Location, Location, Location co-host Phil Spencer commented on her post: “You’re being very brave & stoical. Be still & heal properly. Xx.”
Allsopp said that during a birthday picnic, she “slipped on a muddy patch on the steep path, and it took a whole host of people to get me to hospital”.
Kirstie Allsopp has hosted Location, Location, Location since the show launched in 2000 (PA)
She said her son Oscar, 18, had run “as fast as he could to get help, and the RNLI Bude Lifeboat paramedics and Cornwall Air Ambulance tracked me down”.
Allsopp shared photos, including her leg in a cast in hospital, an X-ray of the injury and images from the beach. She also asked for donations to be made to the organisations who assisted her.
In 2023, Allsopp was forced to pull out of filming Location, Location, Location after falling down a staircase in a pub during filming for the Channel 4 programme.
She called it “without a doubt, the scariest thing and most painful thing I have ever done in my life and I feel immensely blessed to be lying here in bed and not having broken anything”.
In 2024, the TV presenter shared a post on Instagram explaining that she and property developer Ben Andersen had purchased Meadowgate “as a ruin” just before Oscar was born.
A week earlier, she had revealed she had let her youngest son, who was 15 at the time, Interrail across Europe for three weeks with a friend, which had prompted “a call from children’s services”. Allsopp also has a son, Bay, 20, with her husband, and is stepmother to his two sons from a previous marriage.
She has hosted Location, Location, Location with Spencer since the show launched in 2000, Love It Or List It UK and various crafting series.