Laura Woods reveals gruesome eye injury after horror accident during romantic getaway with Love Island star fiancé Adam Collard

TNT Sports presenter Laura Woods has opened up on the horrific eye injury she suffered on a romantic getaway with her fiancé Adam Collard in 2024. 

Woods, 38, had been enjoying a trip with the Love Island star in May of that year when a freak accident left her needing emergency surgery. 

The broadcaster said that while attempting to throw a pillow at Collard, she struck a light shade, which cracked on the roof and ‘came down’ on her head and back.

Woods was rushed to hospital and forced to pull out of covering Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk a few days later, before driving some five hours to London for plastic surgery.

She hadn’t opened up on the terrifying ordeal but now, some 18 months later, the mother-of-one has shared a handful of gruesome images of her injuries.   

The first, captioned ‘a very bad day, these cuts ended up going down to the bone’, showed Woods with a serious gash above and beneath her eye.

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Woods, 38, had been enjoying a trip with the Love Island star in May 2024 when a freak accident left her needing emergency surgery

The 38-year-old, who also fronts Amazon Prime’s Champions League coverage, shared post-surgery snaps, which showed her nursing scars around her face covered by bandages. 

She also suffered wounds to the back of her arms. One picture displayed Woods bleeding from her right elbow, with the caption: ‘The back of my arm was a bit of a mess too, but I can’t see that bit.’

Woods has since undergone ‘lots of red light therapy’ in an attempt to restore her face to its pre-injury state, though she admitted that she went through ‘an ugly phase where the scars seem like they’re regressing’. She light-heartedly dubbed that period the ‘Bear Grylls stage’. 

In an attempt to combat the wounds, the Arsenal fan also revealed that she tried ‘a big f laser’, which she described as ‘painful and expensive’.

Woods added: ‘Trying a big f laser to see if I can help the appearance of the scars. So if you have any scars and want to ask any questions, fire away. 

‘You can localise the scar if you want, but the skin will be different to the rest of your face. And full disclosure – it was painfulllll. It’s also expensive. I look like I was put in a toaster, but I’m hoping it’s all worth it.’

It was however in the aftermath of the accident that Woods and Collard discovered they were expecting their child together, meaning she had to ‘stop treatment and focus on the little person’. 

That little person, baby Leo, was born in January 2025, and Woods admitted that she is now doing much better, despite losing some of her confidence. 

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One picture showed Woods bleeding from her right elbow, with the caption: ‘The back of my arm was a bit of a mess too, but I can’t see that bit’

The presenter also underwent ‘lots of red light therapy’ in the aftermath of the accident

‘Trying a big f laser to see if I can help the appearance of the scars,’ she captioned another candid selfie

Woods also admitted that the scars she suffered in the ordeal have led her to lose some confidence

Responding to a follower’s question, she wrote: ‘Yeah definitely (I have lost confidence). I can see the scars in photos, when I smile, frown etc. 

‘Having a baby took my mind off it though. As well as remembering to eat and brush my teeth hahah.’

Collard, known for his controversial stints on Love Island and then Celebrity SAS, and Woods went public with their relationship after they began dating October 2023.

They got engaged in September 2024 after the 30-year-old proposed on a beach in St Ives, Cornwall.