{"id":323795,"date":"2025-12-02T23:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323795\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:53:09","slug":"laura-woods-collapses-during-itvs-coverage-of-england-women-friendly-womens-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323795\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Woods collapses during ITV\u2019s coverage of England Women friendly | Women&#8217;s football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Laura Woods collapsed during ITV\u2019s live buildup to England\u2019s final match of 2025 against Ghana, with the 38\u2011year\u2011old presenter revealing later that she had \u201cprobably\u201d been battling a virus, and thanking the pundits Ian\u00a0Wright and Anita Asante for catching her as she fell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Woods was leading ITV\u2019s coverage of the friendly at St Mary\u2019s and was pitchside with Wright and Asante when the incident happened. The camera immediately cut away and there was an advert break. When \u00adcoverage of the game resumed, Woods\u2019s fellow presenter Katie Shanahan had stepped in to replace her, confirming Woods was unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cGosh that was a bit weird,\u201d Woods later posted on Instagram. \u201cSorry to worry everyone, i\u2019m ok, the won\u00adderful paramedics at Saints have said its probably a virus, just need a bit of rest &amp; hydration. I\u2019m really embarrassed that happened on tv, but a big thank you to my colleagues at ITV who have really looked after me tonight. And to Wright &amp; Neets for catching me and sorry again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Woods, who also presents TNT Sport\u2019s coverage of the Champions League, was trending on social media following the incident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Woods collapsed during ITV\u2019s live buildup to England\u2019s final match of 2025 against Ghana, with the 38\u2011year\u2011old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-323795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}