Strictly Come Dancing contestant Saffron Barker has revealed she was hospitalised with a suspected ‘tropical disease’.
The 24-year-old – who was the first female social media influencer to make it onto the BBC show in 2019 – posted a series of updates on her Instagram Stories on Thursday showing her skin covered in a red rash, an IV drip coming from her arm and bloody bruises where blood had been drawn by medics.
She said in a caption alongside an image of her lying in bed in pyjamas: ‘Thank you so much for all your well wishes, after a week I finally feel somewhat normal again.
‘The doctors thought I’d caught a tropical disease from a mosquito when I was away.
‘I had all the symptoms being, rashes all over my body, headache, body aches, shooting pains in my body, temperature, sore throat and ears etc.’
In the next of three Instagram Story posts Saffron posted …