Fitness guru Joe Wicks has been taken to hospital after following a stomach churning accident, leaving him forced to cancel work, Daily Mail reports.
According to the report by Daily Mail, the personal trainer, Joe Wicks, 39, was out running when he rolled his ankle and took to Instagram on Tuesday to reveal he’s now on crutches with ligament damage.
Joe Wicks wrote: ‘Happy New Year. Had a shocker this morning. Thought I’d end the year with a run.
‘Was feeling inspired and hit the road in the dark at 6am. As I ran around the corner I rolled my ankle on the grass and put all of my weight onto it. So painful.
‘I had to hop back home on my other foot.
Anyway bit of a setback. Went to the hospital for an X-ray because I thought it was fractured.
‘Good news is that it’s not broken, just ligament damage. Codeine and ice for me today.
He continued: ‘Unfortunately this means I won’t be able to do my planned 5km walk around Virginia Lake tomorrow morning. So sorry I can’t make it. I was really looking forward to it.
‘I’ll plan another one there as soon as I can. If you know anyone who was planning on coming along can you please tag them below or let them know today. I’m worried they won’t see it and will turn up.’
It comes after he denied claiming that ultraprocessed food could trigger ADHD, months after he was slammed for saying his hyperactive behaviour in childhood was down to ‘Wagon Wheels and jam sandwiches’.
Appearing on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Headliners podcast in April, the father of-four appeared to suggest that some diagnoses of the brain condition could ‘stem back to the diet and foods that we’re eating’.
Joe Wicks, nicknamed the Body Coach, also admitted he ‘ran on sugar’ as a child, blaming his love of junk food on his behavioural issues.
At the time his comments were slammed by leading ADHD experts and charities who labelled them ‘misleading,’ ‘wrong,’ and ‘damaging’.
But in a fresh interview, Wicks, 39, who rose to prominence with his PE with Joe workout videos during Covid lockdowns, said he wasn’t ‘saying that ADHD is caused by poor diet’.
Instead, he claimed he was merely highlighting that certain foods and poor diets can affect children’s behaviour.
He told The Telegraph: ‘It was really upsetting because it was never my intention.
‘I was just trying to say that diet has a massive effect on our mood as adults and kids, our energy, our focus.
‘And I said something that offended some people in the ADHD community. They’ll never forgive me for that.’
‘Obviously, what I was saying was certain foods I ate… and even now, with my kids, it really affects them.
‘They don’t want to sit still, their behaviour changes. I wasn’t saying that ADHD is caused by poor diet.
‘I just think it can really have an impact.’
Speaking on the BBC podcast in April, Wicks — who has penned 12 cookbooks selling millions of copies worldwide — said: ‘Looking back now, there’s no doubt the food I was eating was directly linked to my behaviour.
‘I was never diagnosed with ADHD but I think nowadays it’s this common thing that every child seems to be being diagnosed.
‘And I think a lot of it can stem back to the diet and the foods that we’re eating.
‘So, when I think about my diet it was cereal for breakfast, concentrated juice from the milkman, Sunny Delight, Wagon Wheels, sandwiches just jam, Nutella, very little nutrients — pure sugar.’
Amid the backlash his comments stirred up, Wicks released a video statement on his Instagram account days later in which he said that reports had taken his comments out of context.
But, he added, that with hindsight he wished he had worded his comments about childhood ADHD diagnoses differently.
‘It’s triggered and angered so many people in the ADHD community and rightly so. I completely understand,’ he said.
‘I know that’s not factual, that isn’t true. I don’t believe that. I never have, I never would say that.