Former Strictly Come Dancing star Saffron Barker hospitalised amid 'tropical disease' fears

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Former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Saffron Barker was rushed to hospital amid fears she had been stricken with a "tropical disease".

The influencer took to social media with a series of updates on her Instagram Stories after recently falling unwell. In the posts, on Thursday (October 3), Saffron showed her skin covered in a red rash, an IV drip coming from her arm and bloody bruises where blood had been drawn by medics.

She said in a caption alongside an image of her lying in bed in pyjama trousers: "Thank you so much for all your well wishes, after a week I finally feel somewhat normal again.

The doctors thought I’d caught a tropical disease from a mosquito when I was away. READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Vito Coppola fights tears and says 'miss you' in emotional personal message "I had all the symptoms being, rashes all over my body, headache, body aches, shooting pains in my body, temperature, sore throat and ears etc." In the next of three Instagram Story post, Saffron posted an image of a needle and drip hooked to her arm – and told fans she hadn’t contracted malaria.