{"id":1857,"date":"2019-08-28T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2019-08-28T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:20:25","slug":"love-island-star-loses-sight-in-one-eye-after-champagne-cork-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/love-island-star-loses-sight-in-one-eye-after-champagne-cork-accident\/celebrity-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island star loses sight in one eye after champagne cork accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Love Island star has revealed he has lost sight in one eye after a &#8220;really unfortunate accident&#8221; involving a champagne cork.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Theo Campbell, who appeared on the 2017 series of the TV show has revealed his eye\u00a0 &#8220;got split in half&#8221; after he was hit with a cork whilst on holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The star posted alongside his girlfriend, also former Love Island contestant Kaz Crossley, with his eye heavily bandaged up.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1q3avHDl-f\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">View this post on Instagram<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1q3avHDl-f\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thanks for all the messages and support I\u2019ve got over the last couple days they\u2019re all very much appreciated \u2665\ufe0f! So yeah basically 2 eye surgeries later after a really unfortunate accident, I\u2019ve lost all vision in my right eye as it got split in half, who would have thought a champagne cork would be the end of me.. \ud83e\udd28. But I still have 1 eye left, looking at the bright side of things. Thanks for flying out to look after me as well babe \u2665\ufe0f\u2665\ufe0f\u2665\ufe0f if anyone knows where sells cool eye patches let me know :). #captinhook #thor #fettywap<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theo_campbell91\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc07\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc02\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc01\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc0b<\/a> (@theo_campbell91) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2019-08-27T13:52:29+00:00\">Aug 27, 2019 at 6:52am PDT<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Thanks for all the messages and support I&#8217;ve got over the last couple days they&#8217;re all very much appreciated,&#8221; he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;So yeah, basically, two eye surgeries later after a really unfortunate accident, I&#8217;ve lost all vision in my right eye as it got split in half &#8211; who would have thought a champagne cork would be the end of me?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;But I still have one eye left, looking at the bright side of things.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Campbell thanked Crossley for flying out to be by his side in hospital, before adding: &#8220;If anyone knows where sells cool eye patches let me know.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He also took to Twitter to explain further about what condition his eye is in. <strong>He wrote:<\/strong> &#8220;I currently have 7 stitches in my eye (gross) and the doctors say it\u2019s unlikely I\u2019ll see properly again, they done a good job saving it as they said I might loose my whole eye to begin with. But Im hopeful and don\u2019t want to believe my eye is gone forever. Anything is possible \ud83e\udd1e\ud83c\udffd&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"story-body__link-external\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ok.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/theo-campbell-eye-injury-kaz-19014383\"><strong>An eyewitness told OK!<\/strong><\/a>: &#8220;Theo was on holiday in Ibiza enjoying himself when someone popped a bottle of champagne and the cork flew into his eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;People were screaming when they realised what happened and saw the state of his eye. One of the guys said it looked like his eye had exploded.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Love Island star has revealed he has lost sight in one eye after a &#8220;really unfortunate accident&#8221; involving a champagne cork.\u00a0Theo Campbell, who appeared on the 2017 series of the TV show has revealed his eye\u00a0 &#8220;got split in half&#8221; after he was hit with a cork whilst on holiday. The star posted alongside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[481,330,660,770,467,769],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity","tag-itv","tag-itv-love-island","tag-kaz-crossley","tag-love-island","tag-theo-campbell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}