TOWIE legend Amy Childs has revealed that her brother Will has been involved in a ‘major car accident’ but just grateful to have her family around her especially after such a hard year
TOWIE’s Amy Childs has revealed that her brother Will, who also appeared in the show, has been involved in a “major car accident” and been rushed to A&E. The long-running star, 35, was joined by her sibling earlier this year on the ITV2 reality show and took to her social media to reveal that he was lucky to be alive after a tragic incident took place.
Amy posted a picture onto her Instagram Story on Wednesday which showed her mother Julie standing behind Will, who was seated in a wheelchair fresh from his hospital dash.
She wrote: “Someone was looking over my brother. A major car accident, his car is a complete right off. Been in A&E but he is coming home. I love you so much Will Childs. We have definitely been thrown a lot of stuff our way this year. But we are all here to tell the tale, my family my everything.”
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Will, who works on the family’s flower stall in Romford, joined The Only Way Is Essex at the end of the last series, more than a 15 years after his sister appeared in the very fist episode of the programme. Upon his casting, an insider told The Sun: “Over the last 15 years, TOWIE has always featured the cast’s family and friends. The cast and producers are happy that Amy’s brother has featured in the upcoming series.”
But Will has been known to fans of Amy ever since she shot to fame, and he has been an active presence on her social media over the years. The latest incident is yet another heartbreak for former Celebrity Big Brother star Amy, who is engaged to Billy Debosq, but told earlier this year of how her wedding had to be postponed because of her mother’s illness.
At the time, she said: “It’s been intensely stressful. None of us was expecting Mum to have a heart attack – it turned our world upside down.” Amy, Billy, their two-year-old twins Billy and Milly, and Amy’s children from previous relationships – Polly, nine, and Ritchie, eight – were enjoying a family holiday in Tenerife when Amy received the bombshell news.
“We got the awful phone call from my dad that Mum had a heart attack when we were out there, and we decided to fly home that same night. I was in shock. Mum was at home when it happened and suddenly got this excruciating pain in her chest. She was rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they said she’d had a severe heart attack.
“It was so frightening. She had a stent put in and was in hospital for six days. She’s now home but she’s being monitored daily and is on a lot of medication. It’s so tough for her – she sometimes struggles to walk upstairs.” Amy went on to tell OK! that the hardest part for her is that it’s difficult for her to spend as much time with her grandchildren because she needs to rest. It’s heartbreaking. She was only 59 – it happened just before her 60th birthday. We cancelled all her birthday celebrations, but we’re hoping to do something later in the year.
“We’ve all been worried sick. It’s been horrendous and just shows you never know what’s around the corner in life. My mum and I are inseparable, best friends. We call each other five times a day. She always jokes that she never cut the umbilical cord when it came to me, so it was just devastating.
Amy and Billy then made the heartbreaking decision to postpone their big day, which was booked for September at the stunning Cliveden House Hotel in Berkshire. At the time, she explained: “I’d already booked the florist, the entertainment, and I’d started looking at some gorgeous wedding dresses. But it all got too much, to be honest – so we decided to move it to next year.
“It’s upsetting, but I know we’ve made the right decision. Right now, we’re focused on looking after Mum. When we come back from filming TOWIE, we’ll start thinking about getting another date booked in. We want to have the most beautiful day so it’s worth waiting for.”
Amy,then shared that she has pushed the wedding back to next year despite initially having planned to have it in the autumn, but is convinced that it will be a ‘lovely’ day when it eventually happens. . She said: “The wedding’s gonna be lovely. I’ve organised nothing, not organised the venue, not organised my dress. So good luck to me next year getting married!
“We were supposed to get married this September but we’re doing it next year and I’m really excited, but I’ve got nothing organised!”
Amy previously claimed that she had ‘everything sorted’ for the big day, apart from the dress, and that it was all slightly set back when her mum was rushed to hospital following a heart attack so they had to wait until things were better.
She told OK! “We got everything sorted. The only thing I didn’t sort out was the dress. I was looking at designers – I had a stylist. In the end, my life was turned upside down with my mum and that was really tough.
“Mum is better. She needs a lot of rest. She had no symptoms before the heart attack and I think that is what has shocked her the most. At least she had my dad there.”
Source: Mirror
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