Sharing a health update to the Daily Mail, Ollie said: âI think heâs all right. Itâs very complicated. Itâs a very difficult situation.
âHeâs just getting his head around everything, but I think having lots of people share their stories is giving him solace as well and something that is imperative I think because he puts this out for other people as well as himself, and to raise awareness.
âAt the end of the series, thereâs a big fundraiser for, organ donation and I think.
âWhen we spoke about it and stuff like that, since thatâs happened, I think thereâs been tens of thousands of people sign up for organ donation, which is great.
âIf we can save a couple of peopleâs lives in the next however long, well, you can f***ing say whatever you want about reality TV in all your life.â
The Made In Chelsea scenes where Sam revealed his diagnosis hit Ollie hard, with the reality star saying: âIt was just f***ing heartbreaking, the whole thing, and I know heâs gonna be all right. Iâm sure heâs gonna be all right, but a liver transplantâs a big deal and we just have to stay positive.â
Speaking as he launched iD Mobileâs Black Friday campaign, he continued: âIâve done an awful lot of things on the show, coming out on camera, finding out our children have miscarried on camera a few times, getting married on camera, etc. That was really, really, raw, all of that was raw, everything like that, but this was something.
âI just kept on thinking about him and his family and the baby and Alice and it just, I like broke down. I struggled with that.
âBut weâre all there as a family and weâre all trying to do everything we possibly can and they only live around the corner from us and as I said, weâre having dinner tonight and weâre all just sitting there.â
During an appearance on ITVâs This Morning last week, finance app owner Sam, who is the nephew of Vanderpump Rules star Lisa Vanderpump, explained he was told he had irreversible end-stage liver disease after he and Alice, 24, mistook his symptoms for the flu and using too many painkillers.
Sam was filming episode five of Made In Chelsea when he received a notification on the NHS app that he required a liver transplant
He shared that he had irreversible end-stage liver disease with his Made In Chelsea co-stars Ollie Locke and Tabitha Willett on the E4 reality TV show
He said: âI was four when I first got diagnosed â through a series of testing they worked out I had congenital hepatic fibrosis (liver disease).
âThey always said, âyou potentially may need a liver transplantâ, and we went through a lot of testing and a lot of appointments, but as the years went on they went, âYouâre healthy, youâre fine, you live your life normallyâŚâ
âSo much to the point that even a year before I got diagnosed, they were like, âOh, we only need to see you every year, live your life normallyâ.
âThen all of a sudden last year I got very ill with sepsis and things took a bit of a turn.â
In December 2024, Sam became increasingly unwell but he and Alice were certain at first that he had nothing more than a bad case of the flu.
Instead, the reality TV starâs organs were shutting down after heâd developed sepsis.
Sam continued: âWe initially thought it was the flu, I was extremely dehydrated and went through a litre of water and said to Alice, âI just canât quench my thirstâŚâ
âI ended up sleeping for two days, and Alice thought I was overdosing on codeine, just taking too much but it was days later that she realised I wasnât right.
âThey got me into hospital and they turned around and went, âYour organs are going into failureâ.â
Following the heartbreaking scenes, Ollie has revealed Sam is âlike a brotherâ and he and husband Gareth have been rallying around to support him and his fiancĂŠe Alice Yaxley
Alice added of the âscaryâ time for the couple: âIt was difficult to know what was going on, I feel like even doctors when weâd been to the hospital in previous weeks werenât entirely sure what was happening.â
It still took time for Sam to get the diagnosis that he needed, after doctors were thrown off by âblood results that showed everything was going wrongâ.
Around three months ago, he received a ânotification on the NHS appâ that heâd been confirmed to have irreversible end-stage liver disease that required a transplant.
Sam added: âI had to go through a thing of ruling everything out before they associated it to my disease, and they flooded my body with the strongest antibiotics they could find, like using an industrial cleaner on me.
âI finally got better after 48 hours, and I started to respond â they said it was touch and go at one point. If Iâd got into hospital 24 hours later, I wouldnât have made it.
âI got a notification on the NHS app from the new doctor Iâve been referred to saying, âIâve reviewed your latest scans, and looking at this, youâre going to be sent for a liver transplant assessmentâ.â
Sam and Alice are expecting their first child together and are due to have a wedding in 2027
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Sam confirmed that the âshockâ liver transplant news would likely be the only way forward for him now, adding: âI was quite frantic.
âI said to him, âI donât understand because I feel perfectly wellâ, Iâm sitting here today and Iâll probably go for a run, I donât look like I need a liver transplant.
âBut he said to me, âI understand that but I wouldnât be having this conversation with you if I thought in four or five years time that your liver would be OKâ.
âThe big thing is, liver transplants are available today, they do one a day in the UK today, and with a liver transplant I should go on to live a perfectly normal life.â
