Alan Titchmarsh has broken his ankle.
Alan Titchmarsh
The 71-year-old TV presenter slipped on wet grass in his beloved garden last week, and he is now resting his foot following the injury.
Writing in his Gardener’s World column, he said: “The thing that occupies me at the moment is the broken ankle I incurred this week when slipping on our dew-laden lawn.”
Alan has suffered many injuries over the course of his three-decade career, including “blackened fingernails, lacerated arms and legs from confrontations with well-armed rose bushes, [and] stabbing pains in the back from carrying paving slabs and large posts". He also recently slammed a sledgehammer down on his fingers while trying to fix a stout wooden stake into a hole.
Alan explained: “I was inserting a stout wooden stake into a prepared hole for a standard tree and holding the sledgehammer at the top of the handle right against the post.
"My hand slipped and the full weight of the hammer came down, sandwiching my middle finger between post and shaft. The air was blue. The finger was blue. Squashed, but not broken.”
The ‘Love Your Garden’ presenter previously revealed how he was forced to undergo knee surgery two years ago after spending so much time kneeling in the garden.
He said: “I have had what is known as knee arthroscopy on both my knees and my surgeon did it to investigate the reason for my knee pain.
“While he was doing it he removed all my damaged tissue and cartilage. They feel so much better. I’ve got bad knees as a result of a lot of kneeling over the years from gardening and it has got a bit frayed in there but I am a spring chicken again now.”
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