Katie Piper has needed to withdraw from her ITV breakfast present because of an “surprising medical process”.
The presenter, who usually seems on Free Ladies, was scheduled to look on Katie Piper’s Breakfast Present on Saturday (8 June) – however was changed by Good Morning Britain’s Charlotte Hawkins.
Writing on Instagram earlier than the episode was because of air, Piper instructed her followers: “Sadly, I’m not going to be on my breakfast present this weekend as I’ve needed to have an surprising medical process.
Nonetheless, she reassured her involved followers, including: “All is properly and I hope after some relaxation I’ll be again within the sizzling seat subsequent weekend!”
Katie Piper’s Breakfast Present airs on Saturday and Sundays, and is at present onto its third collection.
No particulars are identified about Piper’s process. however in December 2023, the presenter instructed her fellow Free Ladies stars about an operation she needed to sew up her eye to ensure that it to heal/
“I had a deliberate process referred to as a tarsorrhaphy, which is a semi-permanent closure of the attention,” she stated. “So, it’s an operation performed in theatre and your eye is form of absolutely or partially stitched up.
“Some individuals may be accustomed to it, you usually see it when any person has some type of illness of the cornea. And shutting the attention provides it the optimum atmosphere for it to heal.’
“So, I’ve had numerous issues with my eye within the final year-and-a-half. I don’t prefer to go on about it, as a result of there’s all the time any person worse off.”
In 2018, Piper participated in Strictly Come Dancing, and was the third contestant to be voted off. That 12 months’s collection was received by Stacey Dooley.
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Talking about her time on the present, Piper stated: “I’ve taken loads from this expertise and it has all been actually constructive, and I’ll always remember this journey.
“I’ve had an awesome expertise you recognize and I really feel actually privileged to have been right here and thanks to your recommendation and thanks [professional dance partner Gorka Márquez] for all of the hours.”