Strictly's Sam Quek suffered big health scare after having 'recurring nightmares'

02 Nov 2024, 15:02 by Michelle Townsend · RSVP Live

Strictly's Sam Quek is fit as a fiddle thanks to her years of playing hockey.

The gold medal winning Olympian is also putting her best foot forward on this year's Strictly, and has been wowing audiences with her and pro partner Nikita Kuzmin's dances each Saturday night.

But away from the glitz and glamour from Strictly and her job as a TV presenter, Sam previously suffered from a gruelling health scare which she described as a "recurring nightmare".

Sam had a dramatic ordeal when welcoming her second child Isaac, with husband, property entrepreneur Tom Mairs.

Back in 2022, the 35-year-old explained that a week before her due date, she was booked to host Morning Live on BBC. However, she woke up in the middle of the night with contractions and realised she was bleeding.

"I woke up and felt a bit of a twinge. Those twinges gradually grew stronger and stronger and turned into contractions. I'd been having recurring nightmares that if this birth went to a C-section, I was going to haemorrhage. I just felt like something was going to go wrong for this one, I don't know why," Sam told OK! Magazine at the time.

After noticing blood while getting changed, she started to panic, adding: "Naturally, when you're pregnant and see blood, it's never a good sign."

Sam and Tom rushed to the hospital and were told by doctors that everything was fine, but they asked Sam to stay overnight as a precaution.

Sam Quek and husband Tom with children Molly(Image: Instagram/Sam Quek)

The next morning, Sam was told she needed an emergency C-section.

The I'm A Celebrity star explained: "The consultant said 'just to be safe, we're going to whisk you down for an emergency C-section. We don't want to take the chance that it could be anything sinister, so we would advise getting him out'."

Sam and Tom agreed to do "whatever is safest for the baby" and Isaac was delivered safely.

Sam said: "When his little face popped up over the curtain, it was the realisation that he'd finally got here, was safe and was going to join our family of three to make it four."

Sam and Tom, who tied the knot in 2018, are also parents to daughter Molly, who was born a year before Isaac. The family live in Wirral.