DEESIDE TV star Paddy Doherty is back in hospital weeks after first falling seriously ill with coronavirus.

On Saturday, the Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star released a video on social media from his Countess of Chester Hospital bed in which he is visibly short of breath and suffers a coughing fit.

The former Big Brother winner, who lived at Riverside Caravan Park in Queensferry, was rushed to hospital in January Covid-19.

The 62-year-old was given just a "50/50 chance" of survival at the time, but the bare-knuckle boxer said "superhuman" doctors and nurses saved him.

But he has returned to the hospital after suffering breathlessness

The video by Mr Doherty, who now lives in Chester, shows him in a hospital bed receiving oxygen support and is captioned "thought all was fine but here I am back in the hospital. Crazy."

He said: "I'll be out in the morning. Just be careful everyone. I'm worse than a cat. A cat's got seven lives I've got 100 lives.

"Catch you all later. Be lucky."

Last month, Mr Doherty, who now lives in Chester, said he would be “forever” indebted to the NHS for saving his life.

In an interview with the Daily Star, he said: “The doctors and nurses were all around me. I felt like I was paralysed in my body because I couldn’t do anything.

“I couldn’t raise my hand, my head or even speak. I had no strength.

“The doctors were putting all these drips in me and I thought ‘this is it’.

“They gave me some drugs and said if they didn’t work I’d have to go on a ventilator and that I had a 50/50 chance of survival but they told me they thought I could beat it.”

 

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