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Cheryl Cole has malaria
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 6 July 2010
According to reports, Cheryl Cole did not collapse at a photo shoot this weekend simply because of exhaustion, but, rather, because she is suffering from malaria.
A source has told the Daily Mail that Cole’s condition worsened after the photo shoot incident on Saturday and the Girl Aloud and ‘X-Factor’ judge was admitted to hospital. There tests have, said sources claim, showed the singer was suffering from malaria, which it is thought she must have contracted while holidaying in Tanzania recently.
The Mail quote their source as follows: “Cheryl hadn’t been feeling herself for about a week [after returning from Tanzania]. She was feeling tired and listless. In the end, this must have been the beginnings of the virus. During Sunday afternoon, Cheryl went downhill quickly. She was sweating and shaking and in a bad way”.
The official statement on Cole’s health from her PR rep yesterday simply said: “Following doctor’s advice Cheryl Cole will be cancelling all work commitments for the next week. No further comment”.
Cole is expected to stay in hospital to recover for several days, and may need several weeks to fully recover. This may mean the singer will have to pull out of many of the audition shows for the next series of ‘X-Factor’; producers of the programme have already been told to make other arrangements for the next block of filming.
One assumes Simon Cowell is feeling rather bad at the moment, given that at an ‘X-Factor’ recording last week he put Cole’s fragility down to a hangover, and warned the audience she might be extra “sulky” because she’d been partying the previous day.
