EastEnders star rushes wife to A&E as she's left unable to speak and with swollen eyes
Mum-of-two Sammy suffered complications to an ongoing
health
issue and found herself struggling to see out of her swollen eyes.
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Ricky Champ's wife Sammy was rushed to hospital
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Sammy's lips were very swollen
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The influencer shared snaps of her appearance and revealed her struggle
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The influencer revealed she was forced to get medical help as the family prepared to travel to Disney for a holiday.
She explained: 'What is the absolute one thing you don't need to happen the day before vou fly to Disney when you need to go shopping/ pack/clean/do washing...oh that's right, wake up with your lips so swollen you can't speak and eyes swollen shut so vou're in A&E at 7am.
'One of the side effects of my gallstones and liver is severe hives all over my body every single morning that go away by bedtime then I wake up and it starts all over again.
'Something due to the toxins etc (still not considered urgent though, still been told need to wait a year + for an op).'
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Sammy then shared a series of pictures of her very swollen face before she returned to her normal self.
Sammy and Ricky, who tied the knot in August 2016, have a daughter named Beatrix and a son, River.
Ricky, who is best known for playing Stuart Highway in
EastEnders
, has landed a number of impressive gigs since leaving the soap.
Ricky left EastEnders in 2022 after a 'crazy' journey.
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'In EastEnders I went from villain to hero to dad,' he told Digital Spy at the time of his exit.
'It was amazing, doing that for five years with a character's arc. It felt weird leaving him,' he admitted.
EastEnders' Ricky Champ drops sneak peek at new Netflix role - his first TV gig since being axed by soap two years ago
Happily, for fans, Ricky hasn't ruled out a return to the soap someday, noting that anything is possible.
'He didn't die. He rode off into the sunset. I think he's somewhere in the North Circular living with Rainie,' he said of his character.
A year after leaving the soap, actor Ricky joined the
play 2:22 A Ghost Story at the Apollo Theatre.
He has also bagged a guest role in the Netflix series The Decameron alongside
Ricky also plays Sergeant Daz Black in ITV police training comedy Piglets.
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The couple married in 2016 and now share two children
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Ricky is well loved for his role as Stuart Highway in EastEnders
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