80s singer Paul Young rushed to hospital after horror fall on holiday at 5-star hotel as star ends up in intensive care

PAUL Young has told of his horror accident on holiday that landed him in intensive care.

The 69-year-old singer suffered leg fractures after plunging down a flight of stairs at the five-star De Sol Hotel and Spa reception.

The 80s pop icon told the : “As soon as I put my foot on the first step, my leg slipped out from underneath me. I fell and my leg cracked as soon as I hit the step.

“Once I'd gone down, I couldn't stop. There was no handrail, so nothing to hold on to. I just thought, ‘I've lost control’.

"I fell down to three or four more steps, fracturing my leg again and again. It was a multi-fracture. When I came to a stop, I looked down and my leg was in a slightly  position, underneath my bottom.

"I thought ‘I don’t like that. My leg shouldn't be like that’, so I tried to straighten it up and that’s when the pain started’’.

Paul needed three emergency blood transfusions as he was treated for a series of fractures to his left thigh bone.

His terrified wife Lorna, 53, raised the alarm - and Paul was rushed to Santorini General Hospital in Karterados.

The incident happened in September 2024 - just 24 hours into a dream holiday on the Greek island of Santorini.

Paul spent nine hours lying on a gurney in the hospital corridor before catching a private flight to Athens for surgery.

He had a metal rod inserted into the centre of the femur, secured by surgical screws.

The 80s star spent two weeks in hospital before flying back home to the UK on a private plane.