TV STAR Charlie Webster has arrived home in the UK after contracting a rare strain of malaria on her way to the Olympics in Rio.
The 33-year-old Team GB ambassador journeyed back home on a specialist plane with a team of medics on board, who continued caring for her for the duration of the 20-hour flight.
Webster, who was placed in a coma during the worst stage of the illness, remains in a stable but serious condition.
She will continue with her treatment in a private ward at Leeds’ St James’s Hospital.
Webster contracted the illness during the opening ceremony of Rio 2016, and was rushed to hospital on August 6.
5The ex-Sky and ITV sports presenter had just finished a 3,000-mile charity cycle from London to Rio de Janeiro.
The journey saw her travel from London through France, Spain and Portugal before taking a flight to the north of Brazil and then cycling down the country to Rio.
But a friend said: “She had checked the medical risks and been told she didn’t need to take anti malaria drugs because of where she was travelling.”
Charlie arrived in Rio on August 4 and attended the opening ceremony at Maracanã Stadium the following evening.
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But during the spectacle she began to feel unwell, which she initially put down to dehydration from her taxing cycling challenge.
A friend said: “Charlie started vomiting at the ceremony and thought it was dehydration and general fatigue from the cycle.
5“In the early hours after the ceremony she went to hospital and was treated for dehydration.”
As her condition deteriorated rapidly, she was placed in a medically induced coma.
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