THE Masked Singer contestant Justin Hawkins had to be taken to hospital after a freak chemical accident saw his shorts melt into his skin.
The Darkness frontman, 45, was left in agony while attempting to fix the swimming pool at his home in Switzerland. Justin revealed: “There was a problem with the pool, a pump thing and some chemicals came out of it.
I think it was a PH negative chemical to control the acidity of the pool.” Speaking on celebrity message service Cameo, he added: “I was trying to fix it and I touched my legs and my shorts melted onto my legs, so then I had to go to hospital.” Unaddressed or large scale exposure to pool chemicals can result in burns and respiratory problems.
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