Big Brother star rushed to doctors after excruciating accident that TV bosses kept off screen
BIG Brother star Kerry Riches has revealed that she was rushed to see the doctors after suffering a very painful injury in the house.
The 40-year-old NHS worker was became the fourth contestant to be booted out of the house on Tuesday in a special Halloween twist.
She revealed that she suffered an excruciating burn on her hand and had to receive medical attention.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Kerry said: “I burnt my hand on a hair thong that got hot very quickly and I didn’t realise it was on and straight away they asked me to go to the diary room.
“I was asked if I had any blisters – the team were really on it.”
This wasn’t the only medical concern that Kerry, who has multiple sclerosis (MS), with common symptoms including tiredness, vision problems and problems with walking or balance, had encountered during her time on the show.
Kerry admitted she had been “struggling” after she began to lose vision in one eye.
She said: “I was really ready to go that day, I had been struggling for the last two to five days with some MS symptoms that I hadn’t had since diagnosis.
“I started to lose my vision a little bit in one of my eyes, optic neuritis, I took a couple of paracetamols and thought my lunchtime if it was gone then it was just a headache but if it hadn’t then it was something a bit more sinister.
“The sleep deprivation was real, I’ve never felt nothing like it in my life, I massively underestimated that on my part.”
Although viewers saw Kerry have a string of outbursts in the house, the Essex-based star said she was forced to leap into action when one of her fellow housemate was injured.
Kerry said: “I said this a lot in the house, grown up stuff, important stuff, I do really well and keep really calm.
“There was a medical incident in there and they asked me to stay with the individual. I’m calm under pressure.
“It’s the smaller things, like giving me tofu when everyone else is getting a different lunch.
“There was a day when I got stuck in the lift and I don’t like confined spaces.
“The challenge when we got stuck in the rain and I didn’t put my poncho behind my chair, it was so cold and all they had to do was that rock, paper, scissors.
“That probably looked like 30 seconds on TV but it went on for half and hour, I just wanted to get out of the cold.”
Kerry left the Big Brother process through a surprise back-door eviction, meaning she escaped being booed from the crowd.
Over the last two weeks, the housemates have heard calls of ‘get Kerry out’ during the evictions.
Speaking about being repeatedly booed by fans outside the Big Brother house, Kerry said: “It was emotional, I didn’t get it because I tried to be really kind, really authentic, just have a really good time because we’re not in there for a long time.
“It was shocking, I was really surprised.”
Opening up about why she thinks the public turned against her, Kerry said: “I didn’t know, I was worried that that week was because I was quite vocal about not gelling with Zak however we had a real moment. The last 48 hours in that food trial, I couldn’t have done it with anyone else.
“The morning of the eviction, I told him that I had got him wrong. I just think he is the positive all the time, when he used to come in with his pep talks, they didn’t always land right all the time.”
Kerry said: “I just feel really grateful to leave the house dressed as a mummy being the mummy. From what I’ve heard it looks like I was just a mummy to Hallie and Liv but I really didn’t have a cross word with anyone in there.
“I sat with lots of people and Paul would come to me a lot and Dylan used to sit with me a lot, so did Trish, we had lots of mummy chats.
“Chanelle used to say that I reminded her of her mum. I had nice relationship with everybody.”