Presenter returns to TV screens after riding accident

She received “welcome back” messages from stars such as Justin Bieber, The Wanted and Ronan Keating.

The 52-year-old was in hospital for more than a week after falling from a horse and then being trampled. She had surgery for a deep thigh wound.

Yesterday she said she had recovered, and was relieved her injuries had not been more extensive.

“I’m fine. I just keep telling myself ‘You’ve got to look on the bright side’. I could have broken bones. It could have been so much worse,” she said.

Kelly was treated at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, following the accident and has since been recovering at home.

She had been training for a modern pentathlon for the charity Piggy Bank Kids at a riding school in Surrey.

During only her second lesson for the riding discipline she fell from the saddle approaching a jump.

Recalling the accident, Kelly said: “You go into complete shock, it’s only afterwards, when you’re thinking about it, you think ‘I was so lucky’.

“I lost three pints of blood on the scene, which was bad, but the hospital, St George’s, was amazing and it was the NHS at its absolute finest, they really looked after me. But it was really scary.”

She added: “My leg was like something out of a horror film, it was really awful, it was horrible.”

Kelly also confessed that the incident had put her off trying to ride again.