Newsfright! Paxman ends up in intensive care after routine op leaves him with a potentially deadly blood clot... and then finds himself in a wee spot of bother after being caught urinating into a hospital wash basin

Paxman, 66, was snapped on crutches in Notting Hill, West London, on Friday after visiting a restaurant

Jeremy Paxman was rushed into intensive care affected by a doubtlessly lethal blood clot in his lungs after a routine operation.

The veteran Newsnight broadcaster had the scare after present process surgical procedure on his knee, which had grow to be 'worn out' by jogging.

And he revealed that whereas recovering from the surgical procedure he was caught urinating right into a hospital wash basin on CCTV.

Paxman, 66, was snapped on crutches in Notting Hill, West London, on Friday after visiting a restaurant with accomplice Elizabeth Clough.

He defined his accidents – and 'Peegate' – in a light-hearted article for the Monetary Instances.

He wrote 'I wakened and wanted a pee. A pair of crutches have been propped in opposition to the wall subsequent to my mattress. Absolutely, I believed, there is no such thing as a have to disturb the poor nurses?

'After managing to disconnect myself from varied tubes I shuffled in direction of the crutches. Then I observed one thing.

'No grownup male has ever handed a washbasin on a middle-of-the-night mission with out pondering the very factor that seized me, "Nobody will know and all of it leads to the identical place. What's the issue?"

'Having relieved myself, I found there was no deal with, knob or faucet on the sink. (I later found the water provide was managed by a sensor within the wall.) Oh Hell, I'd type it out within the morning. I used to be about to slither into mattress when there was a knock on the door. By way of it got here the night time sister.

'"The whole lot all proper?'" she requested. "Oh sure," I lied. "Was pondering of getting a pee, however modified my thoughts." (One thing no man over the age of 40 has ever thought.)

'She helped me lie down, reattaching the varied units. "Simply as a matter of curiosity," I requested, "Why did you knock on the door at that second?"

'She pointed to the clear conning tower within the ceiling which homes the CCTV digital camera.'

The veteran Newsnight broadcaster had the scare after present process surgical procedure on his knee, which had grow to be 'worn out' by jogging

Within the column, Paxman additionally revealed he suffered morphine-induced night time terrors.

He wrote: 'Like all first-time [morphine] customers, I significantly loved the woozy world into which I now had admission.

'My goals that night time have been of wrestling the Queen Mom for occupancy of the coveted hospital mattress. One other dream had the Nazis taking up the hospital, round which I used to be driving a bicycle.

'On waking I requested a nurse "Are you German?" It turned out she got here from Croydon.'

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