{"id":308206,"date":"2025-12-10T04:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308206\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:19:12","slug":"22-kids-and-counting-star-rushes-daughter-5-to-hospital-while-mum-sue-heads-on-lapland-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308206\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Kids and Counting star rushes daughter, 5, to hospital while mum Sue heads on Lapland getaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Millie Radford rushed her eldest daughter Ophelia to hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning after her grandaughter fell seriously ill with influenza.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old mother-of-three from Morecambe shared an image of the five-year-old looking flushed and wrapped in a red blanket.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re both so poorly, especially Ophelia. We were in hospital till 4am,\u201d Ms Radford wrote alongside the photograph.<\/p>\n

Her husband Harley Passmore later shared his concern, posting: \u201cOphelia and Millie are totally wiped out with the flu. Awful seeing both of them like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Millie Radford, Harley Passmore and daughter Ophelia<\/p>\n

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The illness has swept through the family home, with Millie’s younger children, Chester, three, and Elodie, two, also falling unwell.<\/p>\n

The hospital trip comes as health officials warn that Britain is facing an exceptionally severe flu season, with fears of an unprecedented wave of infections.<\/p>\n

Professor Julian Redhead, national medical director for urgent and emergency care, said: \u201cCases are incredibly high for this time of year and there is no peak in sight yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

A virulent H3N2 strain is driving the crisis after multiple mutations reduced immunity over the summer months.<\/p>\n

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Millie and Harley celebrated their one year wedding anniversary this week<\/p>\n

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Hospital admissions for flu rose 56 per cent last week compared with the same period in 2024, with an average of 1,717 beds taken up in England each day.<\/p>\n

Schools have even been forced to shut temporarily as hundreds of pupils fall ill at once.<\/p>\n

While Millie and Ophelia recover at home, her mother, Sue Radford, has been enjoying a pre-Christmas trip to Lapland with several of her youngest children.<\/p>\n

Sue described the snowy holiday as \u201cmagical\u201d as the children played in the snow and rode with reindeer.<\/p>\n

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Millie Radford’s Instagram story today<\/p>\n

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Images showed delighted youngsters exploring the Arctic landscape.<\/p>\n

The youngest on the trip was five-year-old Heidie, Sue\u2019s 22nd child.<\/p>\n

The Radfords previously visited Lapland in 2021, and the family remains popular through their Channel 5 show 22 Kids and Counting.<\/p>\n

Sue and Noel, who have 22 children, officially stopped growing their family in 2023.<\/p>\n

However, the clan continues expanding through grandchildren, with their 14th grandchild born in April when daughter Chloe welcomed her second child.<\/p>\n

Millie is the third-eldest daughter in the family and often appears in the Radfords\u2019 YouTube vlogs, which give viewers a glimpse into their hectic household.<\/p>\n

She first became a mother at 19 when she had Ophelia in 2020, choosing to keep the identity of the child\u2019s father private.<\/p>\n

She later had Chester and Elodie with Harley Passmore, whom she married in November 2024.<\/p>\n

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Millie Radford with daughter Ophelia<\/p>\n

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Despite her upbringing in Britain\u2019s largest family, Millie says she has no plans to follow in her parents\u2019 footsteps.<\/p>\n

Speaking on This Morning earlier this year, she joked: \u201cI always say, \u2018Why did my mum ever have more than three kids? Never more than three.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have two, you\u2019ve got enough hands, when you have three, you don\u2019t have that spare hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

She insists three children is \u201cenough\u201d for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millie Radford rushed her eldest daughter Ophelia to hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning after her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,830,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-308206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}