{"id":517450,"date":"2026-04-07T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517450\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:54:13","slug":"eastenders-star-in-ae-in-norfolk-during-easter-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517450\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders star in A&#038;E in Norfolk during Easter trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Michelle Collins, best known for playing Cindy Beale in EastEnders, tripped over her dog Peggy, &#8220;bashed&#8221; her knee and was left with &#8220;cuts and bruises&#8221; on her leg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She went to A&amp;E at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King&#8217;s Lynn, which has been rated the worst performing hospital in the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"beach\"\/>Collins with her dog on Old Hunstanton beach (Image: Instagram\/@michelledcollins)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a post shared to her 168,000 Instagram followers she called the staff &#8220;great&#8221;, &#8220;efficient&#8221; and &#8220;kind&#8221;, and said she &#8220;never would have known&#8221; how far down the hospital league table it was, based on the service she received.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"woman on crutches\"\/>Collins was left on crutches (Image: Instagram\/@michelledcollins)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Seems so unfair to label a hospital like this,&#8221; she wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Not great for morale, as one of the lovely nurses said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Woman in hospital\"\/>She told her Instagram followers she had tripped over her dog (Image: Instagram\/@michelledcollins)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Happy Easter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Sitting down scenes this week! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbceastenders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz notranslate _a6hd\">@bbceastenders<\/a>.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Some of her co-stars sent her well-wishes in the comments.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Balvinder Sopal, who plays Suki Panesar and also featured in the last series of Strictly Come Dancing, said: &#8220;Oh love!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"hospital\"\/>She said the hospital staff were &#8216;great&#8217; (Image: Instagram\/@michelledcollins)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Harriet Thorpe, who portrays Elaine Peacock, added: &#8220;OMG darling so sorry, sending all love.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the same weekend, the 63-year-old &#8211; who also spent several years behind the bar in the Rovers Return as Stella Price in Coronation Street &#8211; said that she had scattered the ashes of her dog, Humphrey, on Old Hunstanton beach during her stay.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Woman in hospital\"\/>She added she had heard the hospital&#8217;s reputation was bad for staff morale (Image: Instagram\/@michelledcollins)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He used to love it here, so we&#8217;ve come back with Peggy to stay with friends,&#8221; she wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Been coming here for years.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In September 2025, the QEH was ranked as the worst-performing in the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The table, published by the government, analysed factors such as A&amp;E waiting times, surgery waiting lists and patient feedback, as well as metrics like financial management and staff feedback.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Collins, best known for playing Cindy Beale in EastEnders, tripped over her dog Peggy, &#8220;bashed&#8221; her knee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-517450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517450","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=517450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}