TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has revealed she was airlifted to hospital after slipping in mud and breaking her leg.
The Location, Location, Location host, who turned 55 on August 31, shared a photo on Instagram showing her lying in an ambulance with cuts on her face and a breathing tube in her nose.
She said that during a birthday picnic at Welcombe Mouth beach near the family home at Meadowgate, in Devon, she had “slipped on a muddy patch on the steep path, and it took a whole host of people to get me to hospital”.
She said her son Oscar, 18, had run “as fast as he could to get help, and the RNLI Bude Lifeboat paramedics and Cornwall Air Ambulance tracked me down”.
She asked for help identifying those who had rescued her, adding: “I was given a huge amount of painkillers, so I omitted to ask anyone for their social media details.”
She said: “God only knows what I was like to deal with high as a kite! Everyone at Barnstaple hospital has been amazing, kind & caring, so many lovely people doing their absolute best.
“They have operated on the leg and I’ll be home soon. It’ll be a boot and crutches for a while, but I feel very, very lucky that it was possible to reach me and get me to hospital so quickly, and I have a job that I can do on crutches.
“Not a birthday I am going to forget in a hurry and again, THANK YOU to all those who have been involved in my care.”
Allsopp shared photos, including her leg in a cast in hospital, an X-ray of the injury and images from the beach.
She also asked for donations to be made to the organisations who assisted her.
Commenting on the post, Devon Air Ambulance clarified it had attended, writing: “Kirstie, we’re so glad to hear you’re recovering well.
“It was actually our Devon Air Ambulance crew who attended on this occasion. We work very closely with our friends at Cornwall Air Ambulance, the RNLI, South Western Ambulance Service and other emergency service partners, particularly in border areas such as Bude and Welcombe.
“The crew who attended would be delighted to hear your kind words, and once you’re back on your feet we’d love to welcome you to one of our airbases so you can meet the team who attended you, and see first hand how our critical care service operates.”
In 2023, Allsopp was forced to pull out of filming Location, Location, Location after falling down a staircase in a pub during filming for the Channel 4 programme.
She called it “without a doubt, the scariest thing and most painful thing I have ever done in my life and I feel immensely blessed to be lying here in bed and not having broken anything”.
In 2024, the TV presenter shared a post on Instagram explaining that she and property developer Ben Andersen had purchased Meadowgate “as a ruin” just before Oscar was born.
A week earlier she had revealed she had let her youngest son, who was 15 at the time, Interrail across Europe for three weeks with a friend, which had prompted “a call from children services”.
Allsopp also has a son, Bay, 20, with her husband, and is stepmother to his two sons from a previous marriage.
She has hosted Location, Location, Location with Phil Spencer since the show launched in 2000, and also Love It Or List It UK and various crafting series.
