{"id":7399,"date":"2025-11-23T17:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:23:49","slug":"lady-colin-campbell-76-planning-to-sue-after-shattering-pelvis-in-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/lady-colin-campbell-76-planning-to-sue-after-shattering-pelvis-in-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Colin Campbell, 76, \u2018planning to sue\u2019 after shattering pelvis in fall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\tsummary__ai-icon<\/title>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-metro-gutenberg-summary\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lady Colin Campbell sues a London hotel after falling and sustaining severe injuries to her pelvis and hip<\/li>\n<li>The I’m A Celebrity 2015 star remains hospitalised and requires six months to recover her ability to walk<\/li>\n<li>The accident occurred due to an alleged unsafe design of a hotel room during a film screening event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ai-disclaimer\">\n\t\t\t\t\tCreated with AI assistance. Quality assured by Metro editors.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After falling in a luxury <a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/london\/\">London<\/a> hotel, <a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/lady-colin-campbell\/\">Lady Colin Campbell<\/a> is planning on suing the owners as she remains in hospital recovering from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The star was on <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/im-a-celebrity\/\">I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!<\/a> in 2015, but left the competition on medical grounds, finishing in eighth place.<\/p>\n<p>Lady Campbell, 76, has now shattered her pelvis and hip, facing a six-month wait before she can walk again.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in the building’s basement, where she was attending a film screening, with the TV personality describing the room as ‘very beautiful, black on black.’<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tGet personalised updates on I'm A Celeb\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<p> Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro’s TV Newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/tv-newsletter\/?ito=tv-article&signup-source=tv-article-link\">Sign up to our newsletter<\/a> and then select your show in the link we’ll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tv\/37407834\/colin-campbell-shattering-pelvis-im-a-celeb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sun<\/a>: ‘I was invited to sit down, but there was a person between me and my seat, so to avoid stepping over them, I took a step around.’<\/p>\n<p>Lady Campbell went on: ‘The room is designed to look like it is all on the same level.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"363\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-24785115 lazyload\" alt=\"Contestants for the 2015 series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Chris Eubank, Vicky Pattison, Duncan Bannatyne, Tony Hadley, Lady Colin Campbell, Kieron Dyer. All sat with red sashes around them.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SEI_275458583-97e7.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The star says she is in\u00a0\u2018excruciating\u2019\u00a0pain\u00a0(Picture: ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-24784434 lazyload\" alt=\"Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV\/Shutterstock (5371574cj) Lady Colin Campbell, Tony Hadley and Duncan Bannatyne 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!' TV Programme, Australia - 16 Nov 2015 Lady C is unhappy that she is labelled as one of the camps laziest celebs by Tony and Chris\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SEI_275066230-2f56.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Lady Campbell is also known as Lady C (Picture: ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>‘Where I fell was a radically different level. It was like falling into an abyss.’<\/p>\n<p>Lady Campbell claimed that the fall felt as though she’d taken a 12 to 18-inch drop.<\/p>\n<p>‘They [the hotel] have put style before safety,’ she said.<\/p>\n<p>The former I’m A Celebrity campmate has been creating content in her hospital gown from her bed at the private King Edward VII\u2019s Hospital in London.<\/p>\n<p>It was from there that Lady Campbell explained to the outlet that there was ‘no lighting, no member of staff with a torch to indicate there was a plunge.’<\/p>\n<p>The screening was for filmmaker Amanda Eliasch’s new project, The Truth Will Come Out – a film described on her <a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/instagram\/\">Instagram<\/a> as ‘the truth behind William Shakespeare’.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-24784453 lazyload\" alt=\"I?m A Celebrity star ?taking legal action? after fall left her unable to walk for six months Picture: ladycolincampb\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SEI_275445962-eb20.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>She is taking legal action after her fall (Picture: ladycolincampb)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Initially, Lady Campbell was taken to St Thomas’ hospital before moving on to King Edward VII’s.<\/p>\n<p>She’s been on morphine in the hospital since the fall on October 26 and described her pain as ‘excruciating’.<\/p>\n<p>Lady Campbell said about legal action: ‘I will take it. I hope it can be resolved nicely, but if not, it will be resolved either way.’<\/p>\n<p>She claimed that paramedics also ‘almost fell down the drop when they came’, stating: ‘This \u00adcannot happen again.’<\/p>\n<p>Metro has approached the hotel for comment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"391\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-24784436 lazyload\" alt=\"Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV\/Shutterstock (5455093dz) Vicky Pattison, Lady Colin Campbell and Tony Hadley 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!' TV show, Australia - 30 Nov 2015 Both have bad backs but Lady C insists Tony moves and gives her her chair back. Chris tries to reason with her.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SEI_275066233-6887.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Lady Campbell was on the 2015 series alongside Chris Eubank, Vicky Pattison and Ferne McCann (Picture: ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The star was a divisive character in the camp and didn’t mince her words when talking about the other contestants.<\/p>\n<p>Lady Campbell called the likes of Duncan Bannatyne a ‘vain old goat’, and Tony Hadley a ‘fat slob’.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, she’s made appearances on other reality TV shows, including <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/celebs-go-dating\/\" data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\">Celebs Go Dating<\/a>, and Celebs on the Farm. <\/p>\n<p>The royal commentator has continued to offer her takes on the royal family, publishing several books in the last decade. This included Meghan and Harry: The Real Story, which became a Wall Street Journal bestseller. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Got a story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\">Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/submit-stuff\/\">Submit Stuff<\/a> page – we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><title>Comment now<\/title><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-preferred-source\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Colin Campbell, 76, has been posting on Instagram and YouTube wearing her hospital gown (Picture: Ken McKay\/ITV\/Rex\/Shutterstock) Key Points summary__ai-icon Lady Colin Campbell sues a London hotel after falling and sustaining severe injuries to her pelvis and hip The I’m A Celebrity 2015 star remains hospitalised and requires six months to recover her ability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7407,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions\/7407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}