Loose Women favourite Andrea McLean has given fans a health update after revealing she “collapsed” at home and was taken to hospital by ambulance at the start of the year.

The 55-year-old was diagnosed with “severe pneumonia, acute kidney injury and sepsis” following a week of symptoms including sweating, a “raging” temperature and chest pain.

Opening up about the ordeal in her latest Substack newsletter, the ITV presenter also discovered she had lost “80% capacity” in one of her lungs to “severe pneumonia and infection”.

Andrea explained: “In December I was one of thousands who came down with ‘flu.

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