Kirstie’s TOOTH blown out by toy gun
BuBBLy Tv presenter Kirstie Allsopp is feeling a bit down in the mouth after her nine-yearold son accidentally shot her in the face with a toy gun — and knocked one of her teeth out.
‘It was such a shock and incredibly painful,’ she tells me. ‘I’ve been so busy I’ve only just been able to get to the dentist today so unfortunately I won’t have the new one until December 5.’
Mother-of-two Kirstie, 46, had a two-hour dental appointment to repair the damage.
‘I had two horrible powerful jabs today in both sides of my face and it is still frozen.
‘I’m worried people might think I’ve had Botox! The truth is Oscar shot me.’
Oscar, Kirstie’s younger son with her long-term partner Ben Andersen, was playing with a children’s plastic Nerf ‘blaster’ toy which fires foam bullets when the accident happened.
Eye hospital Moorfields recently issued public warnings about the Nerf guns being dangerous and said they could cause irreversible eye damage.‘What was left was half a tooth — it’s been very irritating,’ says Kirstie.
‘Oh my God it hurts now! But I don’t think anybody has noticed because it’s not at the front.’