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Love Island's Wes Nelson had a frightening hospital dash after losing his vision and consciousness.
The reality star turned musician, 25, told his Instagram followers about the ordeal, but said he's "all good now."
Sharing a photo of himself lying in a hospital bed, giving the thumbs up, Wes wrote: "So yesterday I randomly started to lose vision/consciousness in my house! Managed to get to my neighbours who took care of me and got me to hospital in the ambulance.
"Won't go into detail but we did a bunch of tests and throughout the day and they've have told me I'm all good now."
He added: "I feel loads better today. Got the greenlight for tour tomorrow. See you tomorrow Glasgow."
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Wes appeared on Love Island in 2018 (ITV)Wes rose to fame on the fourth series of Love Island in 2018, coupling up with Laura Anderson and, later, Megan Barton-Hanson.
Although his romance with Megan wasn't to last, his time in the spotlight has.
Following his time in the Majorcan villa, Wes shot to reality TV fame as he later appeared on Dancing on Ice and The X Factor : Celebrity.
Wes also launched his solo music career in 2020 and, in the same year, revealed he had become a millionaire.
Wes is now a musician after first finding fame on Love Island (wes.nelson/Instagram)However, there are some parts of Love Island fame Wes chose to turn his back on – including the influencer lifestyle.
Speaking last year in a Channel 4 documentary, Live After Love Island: Untold, Wes revealed he turned down a huge brand deal as being an influencer made him "depressed".
He told host Will Njobvu: "I’m terrible with social media. I tried [influencing] at the start. I had a couple deals and they were quite affluent and obviously you look at it and you think, 'okay that’s a lot of money'.
"So I tried it and then I was just falling miles behind on posts because I wasn’t posting on time.
"There’s a lot of big contracts that I just gave all the money back and just said: 'I’m not doing them anymore'.
"And that's when I focussed on music, property and did what I wanted to do."
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Wes Has also admitted he isn't in touch with a lot of his Love Island castmates.
Speaking to the Mirror in November, he said: “I only really talked to Josh [Denzel] and Jack [Fowler] to be honest.
Wes and Megan reached the Love Island final (James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)"Jack Fincham sometimes as well. I saw Adam [Collard] not long ago, but I'm pretty out of the loop.”
Smiling, he added: “I think I purposefully keep myself out of the loop to avoid the drama.”
The singer described Love Island fame as a ‘double edged sword’, bringing both publicity as well as a ‘stigma’ he says he is still trying to shed.
“There is literally a group of people that wouldn't listen to music because of the route that I've gone into it,” Wes said. “But it's not something I'm focused on. I'm just happy to be making music and the opinions will follow.”