{"id":251905,"date":"2026-01-19T00:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251905\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:52:07","slug":"piers-morgan-gives-health-update-after-serious-fall-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251905\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan gives health update after serious fall: &#8216;In hospital&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/645860_3240025_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Piers Morgan rushed to the hospital after a severe injury through fall\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Piers Morgan rushed to the hospital after a severe injury through fall<\/p>\n<p>Piers Morgan concerned fans with a recent health update after he injured himself due to a fall.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old journalist took to Instagram on Sunday, January 18, and shared a selfie from a hospital bed, alongside the description of his trip to the healthcare unit.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan had an IV drip attached to his hand and held a thumbs up in the picture, writing, \u201c1. Tripped on small step. 2. In a London hotel restaurant. 3. Fractured femur,\u201d in the caption alongside.<\/p>\n<p>The caption continued to detail how he needed surgery because of the fall, as well as the recommended course of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c4. So badly I needed [a] new hip. 5. Recovering in hospital. 6. Crutches for 6 weeks. 7. No long-haul for 12 weeks. 8. New Year off to a cracking start,\u201d he added, concluding the caption on a joke, \u201c9. I blame Donald Trump.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Several of Morgan\u2019s friends and fans rushed to the comments and expressed their well-wishes and prayers for his speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Although his followers were alarmed by the seriousness of his injury, the commentator continued with his light-hearted jokes, joking that \u201cthe shame of it all is worse than the pain!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan rushed to the hospital after a severe injury through fall Piers Morgan concerned fans with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-251905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}