JJ Slater sparked concern among social media followers on Sunday evening after revealing he had been admitted to hospital. 

The on-off boyfriend of former glamour model Katie Price, who has type 1 diabetes, was forced to take precautionary measures after suffering a setback with the chronic autoimmune condition. 

Taking to Instagram, Slater, 32, shared a pH๏τo of one tattooed arm fitted with a peripheral venous catheter shortly after arriving at a local accident and emergency department. 

Captioning the sH๏τ, he wrote: ‘Hate to see it. The reality of living with type 1 diabetes. Late nights in A&E.’

Slater’s hospital visit comes after Price, 48, admitted she ‘didn’t feel free’ in her current relationship with the fashion designer. 

The pair have been together for 18 months after first meeting following his TV appearance on Married At First Sight UK.

JJ Slater sparked concern among social media followers on Sunday evening after revealing he had been admitted to hospital

The on-off boyfriend of Katie Price, who has type 1 diabetes , was forced to take precautionary measures after suffering a setback with the chronic autoimmune condition

Discussing her relationship on Paul C. Brunson’s podcast We Need To Talk in May, Price revealed how she feels about her romance.

When told she should feel ‘happy’ and ‘free’ with a partner, Price admitted: ‘I’ve never had that in any relationship. Never had any of them.

‘And JJ, he’s the most kind, genuine, easygoing, chilled person. But do I feel my happiest and do I feel free? No.

‘It’s not a reflection on him, maybe that’s what I need to change for myself.’ 

She added: ‘Freedom to me is like when I took my kids to Thailand for a month, just me and them. We felt free. Just little life experiences, seeing things, taking them to little adventures.’

Price went on to discuss other concerns in her relationship as she shared fears that she spends too much time with JJ and not enough with her friends.

She continued: ‘I just don’t want to answer to anyone, I want them to fit in with me.’ When you meet someone, it’s natural to want to be with them all the time.

‘Then the mistakes I’ve made in the past are then you’re with them all the time. It becomes literally 24/7 because I’ve never been out with someone who’s had a nine to five job.’

In the UK about 90 per cent of diabetic adults have Type 2 diabetes

Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person’s blood sugar level to become too high.

There are two main types of diabetes: 

– Type 1, where the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the cells that produce insulin. 

– Type 2, where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body’s cells do not react to insulin. 

Type 2 diabetes is far more common than Type 1. 

In the UK, around 90% of all adults with diabetes have Type 2. 

Reducing the risk of Type 2 diabetes can be achieved through healthy eating, regular exercise and achieving a healthy body weight. 

The main symptoms of diabetes include: feeling very thirsty, urinating more frequently (particularly at night), feeling very tired, weight loss, and loss of muscle bulk.

Source: NHS 

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Discussing her relationship on Paul C. Brunson’s podcast We Need To Talk in May, Price revealed how she feels about her romance 

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Price recently prompted inevitable speculation regarding her current relationship status after reshuffling her social media platform to prioritise pictures that focused on her children and pᴀssion for horse-riding.

She also drew attention to her pantomime role in Pinocchio – in which she plays a fairy – as well as promotional pH๏τos and videos for CBD oil and niche, online fashion retailers.

But there appeared to be no room for Slater, who Price once described as ‘my absolute everything.’

Likewise, Price was notably absent from his Instagram platform, with the first visible pH๏τo of the model seemingly shared last November.

Katie has reshuffled her social media platform to prioritise pictures that focus on her children and pᴀssion for horse-riding

Likewise, Price is notably absent from Slater’s Instagram platform, despite the London based designer previously peppering his grid with pH๏τos of the ex-glamour model 

The Real Husbands of Katie Price

In the decades since she first rose to fame, Katie Price has enjoyed – and quite likely endured – a decidedly busy love life that has seen her walk down the aisle three times before heading to divorce court in equal measure. Here’s a look at the trio with whom she exchanged ‘I dos’… and ‘I don’ts’:

PETER ANDRE (2005 – 2009)

The nation got to watch love blossom between the pair when they starred alongside one another on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here back in 2004. The flying sparks soon became nuptials, with blushing bride Katie and her erstwhile pop hunk beau tying the knot at Highclere Castle (the grand Berkshire estate of Downton Abbey fame) in September 2005. Katie, who was already mother to son Harvey (born in 2002 following a romance with former footballer Dwight Yorke), soon started a family with her new husband. The couple welcomed son Junior in 2005, while daughter Princess followed in 2007. Creation between the pair also came artistically, with the release of reality programmes, a failed talk show and a foray into the music world. However, after four years of securing their position as the Ken and Barbie of reality TV and glossy magazine deals, the pair announced in 2009 that they were going their separate ways.

ALEX REID (2010 – 2012) 

Katie soon switched her romantic allegiance from a onetime ab-bearing pop heartthrob to musclebound MMA fighter Alex Reid. The two met at Michelle Heaton’s 30th birthday party at London’s Cafe de Paris. But shortly after they got together, Katie dumped Alex on live TV, only for him to win her back and the pair go from strength to strength. Weeks after proudly cheering her man on to a win on the 2010 edition of Celebrity Big Brother (also featuring none other than her ex-boyfriend Dane Bowers), Katie jetted off to Las Vegas to tie the knot with her new partner in February 2010 after just seven months of dating – and nine months after divorcing Peter. Following their Sin City sojourn, the pair returned to their native UK, where they had a formal ceremony – which was filmed for a TV series. However, after just 11 months of marriage, the pair announced they were splitting and their divorce was finalised in March 2012. While Katie declared at the time that she married Alex ‘too soon’, she would later go on to reveal that a major factor in their split was his cross-dressing alter-ego Roxanne.

KIERAN HAYLER (2013 – 2021)

Showing herself to be a true woman of the times, Katie embarked on a romance with former stripper Kieran after the two met on the now-defunct Blackberry Messenger service in 2012. And just two months after altering the paths of their lives via those thumb-tapped fateful opening messages, the twosome would go on to exchange nuptials in the Caribbean. Kieran proposed to a thrilled Katie on Christmas Day 2012, and just three weeks later, the pair would be pronounced husband and wife in the idyllic shores of the Bahamas on January 16, 2013. They had their marriage blessed in Weston-super Mare, and in the months that followed, it appeared that Katie had finally found her happily ever after. They welcomed son Jett in August 2013, and daughter Bunny in August 2014. But Katie’s world came crashing down in 2014, when she discovered that Kieran had cheated on her with her close friend of 20 years, Jane Pountney, and was enjoying a fling with another of her pals, Chrissy Thomas. After publicly lashing out at all parties involved (and naming her pet pigs after her friends-turned-foes), Katie appeared determined to make things work when she renewed her vows with Kieran in 2015. But alas, it would not turn out to be third time lucky for Katie, as the pair split in 2018 amid even more cheating allegations. Their ‘amicable’ divorce was finalised in early 2021.