David Walliams, the comic, is distressing from a fractured disc in his back after his current 140-mile charity swim along with the Thames.
After two weeks David Walliams finished his 140-mile swim along the Thames to collect more than £10 million for Sport Relief, the Little Britain actor carry on to pay the cost for it on account of his health.
He had to pull out of hosting a particular screening of UltraSuede: In Search of Halston, a film about the fashion designer which is directed by his friend Whitney Sudler-Smith, after his doctors advised him not to go away his hospital bed.
“He had a horrible back spasm,” Sudler-Smith told me at the after-party at Wyld at the W London hotel. “The innocent man can’t walk properly and is fixed in hospital.”
Sudler-Smith illustrated that Walliams’s wife, Lara Stone, had concerned for him since he ended his swim. Before Walliams start out on it, he had been given injections and a preventive course of antibiotics, but, due to severe rain, some 132 million gallons of raw dirt had go into the river over the last week.
By day three, Walliams was declining behind the program after becoming “very poorly” with a soar temperature, vomiting and diarrhea.
The 40-year-old actor and humorist artist said at the time: “This is by now very tough than I thought it would be, but this Thames stomach I’ve got is making the duty seem extremely difficult.”
Walliams has pointed out that he is improbable to be doing any more welfare swims. Yesterday his spokesman told: “He scratched one of his discs due to his swimming and is now out of hospital, but he is experiencing physio and has had to postpone some meetings.”
