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Kym Valentine’s Pneumonia Flight Of Doom

2:15PM Clem Bastow | Even though in the past few years I’ve made the permanent switch, more or less, to Home & Away, the dull suburban living rooms of Neighbours and Ramsay Street’s inhabitants will always have a special place in my heart – as such, I always like to keep tabs on what’s up in the land of Lassiter’s. So you can imagine my dismay at hearing about Libby Kennedy aka Kym Valentine’s mid-air health crisis, en route to home from her New York holiday! After boarding the aircraft, Valentine told staff she was unwell but her condition rapidly deteriorated during the long-haul flight, to the point where cabin crew were forced to administer oxygen. Sources told Confidential that staff became hugely concerned for Valentine’s wellbeing as she began drifting in and out of consciousness. The actress was rushed to hospital after the flight landed in Melbourne on Saturday morning, and was immediately diagnosed with pneumonia. It is understood actor Vince Colosimo was yesterday by Valentine’s bedside in hospital, where she is expected to stay for several days recovering from her ordeal. “It was a chest infection that was exacerbated by being on the plane and she became sick quite quickly,” Valentine’s manager Jacinta Waters said. “She is following doctors’ orders and is in the best possible place.” Defamer Australia sends its most full-strength Butter Menthol wishes to Kym and sings the “get well, get well soon” song from Seinfeld. But what’s that, you didn’t realise she was going out with Vince? Indeed, the pair are a couple – which has apparently caused on-set “tension” with Colosimo’s ex-wife, Jane Hall (who plays… someone on Neighbours whose character’s name I can’t remember. Rebecca? Something? It’s all about Summer Bay, I told you). But mostly we know they are a couple because of this amazing bit of Photoshop work whipped up by the Tele and news.com.au earlier in the year: Totally convincing, isn’t it? It’s like they really are standing/sitting next to each other in the very same tear in the space/time fabric! More »