Kay Burley Illness And Health Scare: What Happened To Kay Burley’s Face?

 

 

Kay Burley suffered a horrific allergic reaction, leading to her missing her show on Sky News on Thursday.

The broadcaster, 62, was practically unrecognizable in an image shared on Instagram depicting her badly swollen face alongside the caption: ‘When allergies prevent you from being on the TV. Sorry to have missed you all today.’

She added in the tune of Art Garfunkel’s 1978 hit Bright Eyes, which includes the poignant lyrics: ‘Bright eyes, burning like fire // Bright eyes, how can you close and fail? // How can the light that burned so brightly // Suddenly burn so pale?’

She did not specify what had happened to cause the allergy, however, she gave her followers the inside scoop with the shocking snap.

She has appeared on Sky News since 1988 and hosts from Monday to Thursday, appeared to be reclining on a bed with her trademark fringe pushed off her face to show her swollen and dry-looking eyes in the close-up selfie.

Her post is not the only time she has been candid about her health, as she revealed in 2021 that going through menopause is ‘tricky’ to handle while working on TV and claimed hot flushes leave her ‘looking like she’s walked through the shower’.

The Sky News host, from Wigan, requested the temperature in the studio where she presents her breakfast show is permanently set to low.

Speaking to The Times, the mother-of-one said: ‘The menopause is tricky. Especially for being on the telly. If I have a hot flush, the ladies need to come in during a break and try and sort my hair out. It looks like I’ve walked through the shower.’

She also admitted to feeling ‘very embarrassed’ about the incident which led to her being suspended by Sky for six months on full pay for breaking Covid rules while celebrating her 60th birthday in London in December.

The night saw her visit a restaurant with nine other diners – who sat at two separate tables to comply with the Rule of Six – and then use a different restaurant’s bathroom after the 11 pm curfew.

It also resulted in the suspension of two of her regular guests, Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby and reporter Inzamam Rashid, for three months.

She was ‘not keen’ to talk about what happened, and she said she prefers the term ‘sanctioned’ and insisted she thought they were being Covid-compliant.

‘I was very embarrassed that I dragged… well, my colleagues found themselves in a position where they were unhappy and in the spotlight in a way that they didn’t want to be,’ she said.

‘We thought that we were Covid-compliant. We weren’t. I apologized publicly. I was suitably sanctioned and we move on,’ she added.