English footballer presenter Laura Woods says she is “OK” after collapsing while leading television coverage of England’s friendly against Ghana in Southampton.<\/p>\n
Woods was caught by pundits Ian Wright and Anita Asante in the opening minutes of the programme, at which point ITV cut to an advert.<\/p>\n
When the coverage returned, colleague Katie Shanahan had taken over as presenter and confirmed Woods had been “taken ill”.<\/p>\n
Woods later said medical staff told her it was likely a virus.<\/p>\n
“Gosh that was a bit weird,” she posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n
“Sorry to worry everyone, I’m OK. Just need a bit of rest and hydration.<\/p>\n
“I’m really embarrassed that happened on TV but a big thank you to my colleagues at ITV who have really looked after me tonight and for Wrighty and Neets for catching me.”<\/p>\n
Woods’s fianc\u00e9, reality TV personality Adam Collard, had earlier issued an update on the presenter’s condition on social media after fans expressed concern.<\/p>\n
“Laura is all OK and with the right people. Thank you for all of your kind messages,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
Woods is a regular presenter across men’s and women’s football on ITV and TNT Sports in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English footballer presenter Laura Woods says she is “OK” after collapsing while leading television coverage of England’s friendly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,39868,1208,596,112470,183011,13198,85],"class_list":["post-326064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-collapse","tag-england","tag-football","tag-ian-wright","tag-laura-woods","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326064","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=326064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}