Love Island star Theo Campbell sues Ibiza club after eye ‘split by champagne cork’

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Theo Campbell is suing the owners of the O Beach Ibiza club 
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Love Island star Theo Campbell is suing the owners of an Ibiza nightclub after a champagne cork struck him in the eye during a summer party.  

The reality TV contestant needed emergency surgery to his right eye after the “Champagne spray party” at the O Beach Ibiza in August last year and has since had a series of further operations.  

On Thursday, Campbell, 29, launched a High Court damages claim, saying the firm that runs the club, Ice Mountain Ibiza SL, had failed to protect his safety.  Insurers Chubb European Group Limited have been named as the second defendants in the legal claim.  

“The last 15 months or so trying to come to terms with what has happened have been hard,” said Campbell.  “I’m a positive person and try and remain upbeat but as time goes on the chances of my sight getting back to normal become reduced.

“I’m speaking with doctors about what may or may not be possible but I also have a number of questions about what happened to me.  

“I don’t know what the future may hold with regards to my sight but I feel that the least I deserve is answers to what happened and why.  

“Bringing this case was something that hasn’t been done lightly but I feel that at present it’s the best opportunity for me to get the answers I deserve.”

He added: “I don’t know what the future may hold with regards to my sight but I feel that the least I deserve is answers to what happened and why.”

Campbell, a Bath-born sprinter who was in the third series of the ITV show in 2017, first revealed the injury on social media last year, posting a picture of himself wearing an eye patch and saying his eye had been “split in half”.

He has hired specialist injury lawyers Irwin Mitchell, who today said Campbell “was hit in the eye by a cork from a bottle during an official Champagne spray party organised by the venue”.

Ice Mountain Ibiza SL already faces an £8.5 million damages claim from ex-footballer Joey Hutchinson, who was found floating in a pool at the club in 2016. The former Middlesbrough player suffered spinal injuries and requires 24-hour care. The club and its insurers have denied liability for the injury.

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