Katy French in a critical condition

whiskeyman · 03-12-2007 9:32am #1

Just saw this...

http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/mhmhidsnojoj/

Irish model Katie French is in a critical condition in a hospital in Navan.

It has been reported that she had been spending the weekend at a friends Co house in Meath when she collapsed and was rushed to hospital.

Wonder what was wrong?

kelle · 03-12-2007 10:44am

I hope she makes a quick recovery, poor Katy.

MayMay · 03-12-2007 10:48am

Not another publicity stunt I hope!

Seriously though I hope she's okay, criticial?? Hopefully she'll be alright.

newbie74 · 03-12-2007 10:51am

don't know - it was on rte radio one news and on aertel. presume it would not be in the news if it was just a cold and if it was a car accident or something i presume that would be reported. She is too young for a heart attack i reckon. in the absence of solid info god knows what people will think. get well soon anyway

Stargal · 03-12-2007 11:13am

newbie74 wrote: »

don't know - it was on rte radio one news and on aertel.

Yeah I was surprised to hear it on RTE news during Morning Ireland this morning tbh. It's also on the front page of the Irish Independent. Seems that there's no details available other than that she's in critical condition.

Time Magazine · 03-12-2007 11:15am

A hospital in Navan?

She must hate that.

MayMay · 03-12-2007 11:17am

Ibid wrote: »

A hospital in Navan?

She must hate that.

Now now!

MayMay · 03-12-2007 11:33am

Maybe that's why they're not releasing anymore info at the moment.

ang · 03-12-2007 11:54am

This girl is such a media whore. Every week she is in the papers, why?! I hope this isn't a publicity stunt. Her ex was so gay looking, bet 'the breakup' exclusive all over the papers was to get publicity for the 2 of them.

Last weekend she was in the papers saying used to do coke, wouldn't be suprised if the collapse was due to drugs.

MayMay · 03-12-2007 11:56am

Whatever she does for a living, she hasn't hurt anyone and she could be in a really bad state so back off a little until we know more.

Lux23 · 03-12-2007 12:20pm

MayMay wrote: »

Whatever she does for a living, she hasn't hurt anyone and she could be in a really bad state so back off a little until we know more.

Why? I would be bitching about her if she was not in a critical condition so why change just cause she is sick.

MayMay · 03-12-2007 12:50pm

Fair enough, I just think it's bad form if she's so ill...she's not a bad person, she hasn't done anything wrong...

Clare Bear · 03-12-2007 1:39pm

Don't know why I'm surprised that she did drugs, just thought she had a bit more cop on than that...but not a big shock really....anyway hope she pulls through.

Stargal · 03-12-2007 1:50pm

Clare Bear wrote: »

Don't know why I'm surprised that she did drugs, just thought she had a bit more cop on than that...but not a big shock really....anyway hope she pulls through.

Just to be clear - in the interview she gave last week she said that she had taken cocaine in the past but does not do so anymore. There is no indication right now why she is in hospital so folks please don't speculate too wildly about drug use, mmmkay? (Not directing this at you Clare Bear, it's a general thing cos this could easily turn into a legally dodgy thread).

Side issue: This thread has already had almost 800 views in the four hours since it was first posted. Additionally, the Celeb & Showbiz forum has had around 30-50 people viewing the forum at any time that I've checked this morning. Right now there are 45 people viewing, which makes it third only to After Hours and PI. (Note: The stats are indicative rather than perfect, plus the figures for some forums aren't shown)

Now the forum generally gets pretty high viewership but this would seem to be exceptionally high and I'm guessing that this Katy French story is a big reason for that. As much as we give out about her there's clearly a massive interest in her.

tbh · 03-12-2007 2:05pm

According to the Herald (I just died a little inside), she was suffering a severe headache when the ambo was called.

kelle · 03-12-2007 2:07pm

I was in the doctor's surgery this morning, and I was surprised the 3 other mothers in the waiting room had never heard of her! They must have been on a desert island or something.
I was just reading about her yesterday in the magazine supplement to the Daily Mail, and in it she said she had taken cocaine in the past, but doesn't now and was warning others to stay away from it. There was also photos of her as a toddler in the Star on Friday (I think), and she was SO gorgeous.
Ah, I have a fondness for her especially as she did some work for Goal recently in Calcutta and she seems a pleasant girl.
I suppose nobody's too young to have a heart attack. All we can do is wait until there's further developments. Let's hope she's recovers very soon.

whiskeyman · 03-12-2007 2:07pm

Stargal wrote: »

Side issue: This thread has already had almost 800 views in the four hours since it was first posted. Additionally, the Celeb & Showbiz forum has had around 30-50 people viewing the forum at any time that I've checked this morning. Right now there are 45 people viewing, which makes it third only to After Hours and PI. (Note: The stats are indicative rather than perfect, plus the figures for some forums aren't shown)

Now the forum generally gets pretty high viewership but this would seem to be exceptionally high and I'm guessing that this Katy French story is a big reason for that. As much as we give out about her there's clearly a massive interest in her.

I demand royalties for handing you this scoop

r3nu4l · 03-12-2007 2:20pm

kelle wrote: »

I was in the doctor's surgery this morning, and I was surprised the 3 other mothers in the waiting room had never heard of her! They must have been on a desert island or something.

Well I only clicked on this thread to find out who the feck Katie French is to be honest. I can honestly say I have never heard of her but then again, I generally avoid the type of mags that crow on about 'celebs' that aren't actually 'famous' for anything at all. It's amazing that anyone in Ireland who appears in the Sunday Independent society pages or weekend magaznine is suddenly a 'celeb'. Even when I do see column inches devoted to these people I tend to skip past them quickly. Possibly a fault in my personality!

Ah, I have a fondness for her especially as she did some work for Goal recently in Calcutta and she seems a pleasant girl.

Too cynical of me to say that the charity work was probably suggested by a PR agency?

I suppose nobody's too young to have a heart attack. All we can do is wait until there's further developments. Let's hope she's recovers very soon.

Aye, let's hope that she will recover soon. The daughter of a colleague of mine recently had a heart attack, she's only 29...3 years younger than me!!

DonJose · 03-12-2007 2:36pm

Katie Who?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCHUuU9xF4E

Lux23 · 03-12-2007 2:55pm

She had a heart attack? Jesus. She doesn't lool like she starves herself or anything, thats scary.

tbh · 03-12-2007 3:05pm

newbie74 wrote: »

She is too young for a heart attack i reckon. in the absence of solid info god knows what people will think.

kelle wrote:

I suppose nobody's too young to have a heart attack.

R3n4ul wrote:

The daughter of a colleague of mine recently had a heart attack

Lux23 wrote:

She had a heart attack?

Where does it say she had a heart attack?

Lux23 · 03-12-2007 3:18pm

tbh wrote: »

Where does it say she had a heart attack?

It doesn't. Just said she had headaches.

Stargal · 03-12-2007 3:19pm

Folks I've already made this very clear - enough of the spurious allegations. Now I haven't seen the Herald yet but nothing I've read has confirmed anything about either a heart attack or a drug-induced illness so stick to what's known. The next person to break this will be banned.

humanji · 03-12-2007 3:30pm

rovers_runner wrote: »

Cocaine is a well known link to heart attacks in young people.

So is smoking and cholesterol.

rovers_runner wrote: »

This wouldn't be in the news if it wasn't out of the ordinary.

Of course it would. Read Stargals post about the stats for this thread. She's a "celebrity" (it makes me shudder to use that term for her), so anything and everything about her is news worthy, especially when papers have nothing else to report.

Radharc na Sleibhte · 03-12-2007 3:32pm

I don't particularly like or dislike the girl, but however she ended up in a "critical condition", I hope she pulls through.

kelle · 03-12-2007 4:59pm

Sorry, Stargal, but I made my statement because Newbie 74 had queried it! Wasn't trying to make an allegation of any kind.

Quality · 03-12-2007 5:55pm

She probably just needs a good dinner....

That'll sort her out...

But I do hope she is okX x x x

parliament · 03-12-2007 6:09pm

kelle wrote: »

Let's hope she's recovers very soon.

cool by association; I hope you extend your best wishes to the hundreds of less fortunate people who take ill every day. Guess some people still live in hope that they will get to meet their heroes in person and recall how they wished them the best when they were ill all while their hero looks down on them with in amazement at the loyalty of their lesser beings

tbh · 03-12-2007 6:15pm

or she could be the type of person who would post to wish anyone well in a similar position. You've not started any threads about anyone else, so how would you know? this is the celebrity forum after all - cop yourself on.

WithCheesePlease · 03-12-2007 6:16pm

hopefully whatever it is it's contagious and Glenda Gilson goes to visit. You wouldn't want it to be all for nothing after all...

MayMay · 03-12-2007 6:43pm

gearoid_healy wrote: »

hopefully whatever it is it's contagious and Glenda Gilson goes to visit. You wouldn't want it to be all for nothing after all...

Harsh! You'd think these girls were serial killers or something! :rolleyes:

Fozzie Bear · 03-12-2007 7:12pm

MayMay wrote: »

Harsh! You'd think these girls were serial killers or something! :rolleyes:

Maybe a wee bit harsh but i can fully understand their feelings about Miss French. She is a media whore and will go to any lengths to get her puss photographed and in a newspaper or on tv. I'm sick to death of seeing her orange tinged, tanned to within an inch of her life, face looking out at me when i open a paper or magazine.

I did not see it myself but i was told today that there was a picture of her in yesterdays Sunday World getting out of a car at her birthday. She is apparently going commando and the picture leaves nothing to the imagination with her privates are on parade.... Now she knew full well there would be photographers there (as she normally tips them off herself) so she obviously planned to whole thing knowing it would get her in the papers again. Its all just a bit sickening at this stage that the girl is that desperate for publicity. No doubt if she does recover it will generate further column inches for her and lead to even greater exposure of her. She is a pretty pathetic figure in my eyes.

MayMay · 03-12-2007 7:21pm

I suppose you have a point alright Fozzie. I just don't really read the papers she's in so I suppose I'm not as sick of her as a lot of people are that are forced to see her mug every day.

Nightwish · 03-12-2007 7:23pm

Its unfortunate that shes ill, but tbh I dont feel any pity or sorrow for her. There are ICU's all over the country that are full of people, who's stories are never told. Whether she pulls through or not, I really dont care. One less media whore tbh. Guarantee you the "bouncing back" book will hit the shelves next xmas, if she does pull through.

super_furry · 03-12-2007 7:48pm

Can you overdose on orange tan?

MayMay · 03-12-2007 7:51pm

super_furry wrote: »

Can you overdose on orange tan?

That was it!!!! :eek: Notify the doctors!

irishgeo · 03-12-2007 9:09pm

i hardly surprised she is ill, if she was quoted correctly in the papers last week.

She apperently said that she has had a kidney infection all week and was taking antibotics, so she would be taking it easy on the drink for her birthday.

She should not be drinking at all, if she was taking medication.

Thats according to the The Mirror, the day after her party.

NAGGIE03 · 03-12-2007 9:21pm

Obviously wouldnt like to see anything bad happening to her but it all sounds like its her own doing! guarantee in two or three weeks she ll be posing with da docs who saved her life and pleding a life of abstinence and celibacy!

Sleepy · 03-12-2007 9:36pm

So she's actually in the news for something more important than being herself?

*those were my exact words when I heard Princess Di was in a car crash. Wonder if the same jinx can hit twice?

Laslo · 03-12-2007 10:20pm

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

Maybe a wee bit harsh but i can fully understand their feelings about Miss French. She is a media whore and will go to any lengths to get her puss photographed and in a newspaper or on tv. I'm sick to death of seeing her orange tinged, tanned to within an inch of her life, face looking out at me when i open a paper or magazine.

Don't read rags then. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

I did not see it myself but i was told today that there was a picture of her in yesterdays Sunday World getting out of a car at her birthday. She is apparently going commando and the picture leaves nothing to the imagination with her privates are on parade.... Now she knew full well there would be photographers there (as she normally tips them off herself) so she obviously planned to whole thing knowing it would get her in the papers again.

So what? Who's to blame anyway? Katy French who wants the attention or the media who give it to her... or the morons who read their papers/magazines?

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

Its all just a bit sickening at this stage that the girl is that desperate for publicity. No doubt if she does recover it will generate further column inches for her and lead to even greater exposure of her. She is a pretty pathetic figure in my eyes.

I would agree that she's not exactly top of my respectability list as she has no discernable talent to speak of. But generally models don't - all they're really supposed to do is look pretty. That's their job.

Has it ever occurred to you that the reason Katy French is in all these magazines and papers is because people like you are buying them?

I know very little about Katy French. Maybe she's bitchy and bad natured - but it would seem, Fozzy Bear, that so are you. I don't really see the difference between bitchy celebrity types and the idiots that read about them (and then consequently bitch about "having" to read about them)

daveirl · 03-12-2007 11:11pm

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magicbastarder · 03-12-2007 11:40pm

kelle wrote: »

I was just reading about her yesterday in the magazine supplement to the Daily Mail, and in it she said she had taken cocaine in the past, but doesn't now and was warning others to stay away from it.

well, she'd hardly admit to being a coke fiend, would she?*

*not that i have any reason to believe she is, but an 'i don't indulge in *insert illegal activity*' statement in the press is meaningless.

Laslo · 03-12-2007 11:59pm

daveirl wrote: »

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Funny, I read the Times and I don't remember seeing her in it. Eyes must have selectively passed over the picture/article. I have a habit of not reading stuff that I'm not the least bit interested in. You must really have a pathetic chip on your shoulder to be calling a woman you don't even know a 'daft bint' and a 'muppet'. Classy!

ivorygal · 04-12-2007 12:02am

I heard Katy French being interviewed on the Drivetime Programme on 2fm a couple of months ago. I have to say I was blown away by how eloquent she was - especially for a 23 year old. Like a lot of people I had seen her pictures in the Sunday Independent, Evening Herald etc etc and had built up a negative image of her in my mind. Hearing her speak, listening to her views I had to admit that my preconceptions of her were way off base.

As a model, the better known she is the more she's going to be booked for modeling assignments. It's in her best interest to have people talking about her and to be seen in the papers - it's her career. She's been incredibly savvy if you think about it she has created a talkability factor around her - we're all on this forum talking about her now.

The RTE news at 9 featured Katy as their fourth ranked story -which is significant. It's significant in that the news editors at RTE felt that the people of Ireland would be interested in this story and sadly, I would speculate, that Katy is in a gravely serious condition they know about and are currently unable to report.

CALI · 04-12-2007 12:07am

sadly, I would speculate, that Katy is in a gravely serious condition they know about and are currently unable to report.[/QUOTE]

I would agree....

MayMay · 04-12-2007 12:11am

Still no word on any improvement or anything at all then?

roughan · 04-12-2007 1:50am

was told by a friend that its pretty bad
dunno how true it is but a machine is keeping her alive......

Stargal · 04-12-2007 2:02am

ivorygal wrote: »

sadly, I would speculate, that Katy is in a gravely serious condition they know about and are currently unable to report.

CALI wrote: »

I would agree....

roughan wrote: »

was told by a friend that its pretty bad
dunno how true it is but a machine is keeping her alive......

Jesus, enough of the stupid rumours.

Time Magazine · 04-12-2007 2:12am

If she was very serious, she wouldn't be kept in Navan.

Unless of course, there's no hope.

Blush_01 · 04-12-2007 5:05am

I don't know the girl, I don't particularly like her media persona, but I do feel very sorry for her family if she is gravely ill, and would hope that she recovers. Whoever she is in the media (remember, most people in the media construct a public persona for themselves), she's still someone's daughter, sister, niece, friend - those people deserve a bit of respect too. I can't imagine the fact that anyone in my family was gravely ill being plastered all over the media would give me any comfort, should the situation arise. If she has chosen to court the media as her main means of providing herself with a living, so be it, but surely all the ill wishes being tossed around as her illness is discussed will do more harm than good should she NOT pull through?

If you want to speculate on her personality, perhaps doing so might be more prudently reserved until she's declared well enough to not care about what you think, again? Otherwise your barbs or frustration at who she portrays herself to be may merely add to the suffering of those to whom she is someone dear. Just my two cents. (Keep the change.)

rovers_runner · 04-12-2007 9:51am

Katy French watch:

08:50: Some goy pulls up in a '99 Jag outside the Hospital.
His chino's so don't match his dubes, stay tuned to TV3 for more shortly.

Katy French in a critical condition

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