ITV This Morning star hospitalised after 'nightmare' accident

Daily Mirror

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ITV's Jake Quickenden has been rushed to hospital after suffering an accident while taking part in the Yukon 1000 boat race, which he was forced to pull out of
A favourite from This Morning has been left devastated after a 'nightmare' event landed them in hospital. The ITV morning programme has seen quite the buzz recently, with Emma Kenny celebrating the arrival of her fourth child at 52.
Meanwhile, regular hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley are gearing up for their well-deserved summer hiatus. As Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary continue to helm the Friday shows, a slew of familiar faces are set to fill in for Ben and Cat.
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Olivia Atwood, Emma Willis, Rylan Clark, Josie Gibson, Rochelle Humes, Joel Dommett, Craig Doyle, Sian Welby, and Andi Peters are all on deck to take the reins.
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Jake Quickenden, an ex-X Factor star turned This Morning regular, is known for his engaging public segments across Britain, reports the Manchester Evening News.
However, Jake's recent Instagram post on Saturday (July 11) shared some unfortunate news. The I'm A Celebrity star suffered an injury during the gruelling Yukon 1000 boat race, leading to him and fitness coach Matty Green pulling out of the competition.
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Sharing his disappointment, Jake expressed: "It was fun while it lasted, I can say was the most amazing, scary and utterly bonkers 36 hours I've had in my life. Already so p***ed off ready to try again next year.
"Sometimes the universe tells you something isn't right and this time I listened and we had to get out, I wanted to get home to my kids and wife, I lost my dad young and it affects me everyday I didn't want that for my lads."
Jake then recounted their initial burst of energy, which was abruptly halted when a wave knocked them into the water during their challenge.
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"I couldn't get my spray deck off and was under water what seemed like 3 minutes when I came up I was pretty panicked and we had to swim the boat back to the side. Luckily we wasn't in the middle or it could have been bad, got the water out, the boat got dry and managed to set off again after losing about an hour, just when we got moving the pedal of the boat snapped and we couldn't turn left."
He continued: "This is when I was like is this meant to be, I believe in all that stuff and felt like we were being told to get out, we didn't listen we fixed the boat but by this time the storm had hit and we needed to camp to shelter from the wind and rain and the lake which if we hadn't have gone in we would have been off was now too dangerous to paddle on and I'm so glad we don't risk trying.
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"We camped bear spray in hand and woke up around 3.30am after now losing 8 hours of time. We packed up got in the boat and wanted to push on we finished the 17k of the lake and we was on the river and ready to push on and try and make the cut off time, as we was celebrating making the river, we hit a boiling eddy that pulled us under and spat us out like nothing," he recalled.
Jake went on: "We came up and was about to go down the river for I don't know how long (which could have been bad) when out of nowhere again like it was meant to happen. Kyle and Mel, two American travellers who just happened to have finished fishing, jumped in the canoe and pulled us to the side.
"They were honestly angels and I personally think they stopped something really bad from happening. We got dry and realised I had a pretty beat up wrist and a broken boat and after 4 bits of bad luck we should call it.
"So we called it and for me and matty that's a hard thing to do, we knew we probs wouldn't make the cut off time in Dawson, not with the boat and my wrist, and like I said something felt off like it's was trying to get us off that river everytime something went good something terrible brought us back down to earth."
Acknowledging that 'sometimes you fail that's life', Jake expressed gratitude to his supporters for their 'love and support', revealing he had 'learnt more over 48 hours than ever before'.