Carolyne Underwood

Carolyne Underwood (born 1982) is a British television personality. She became paralysed in January 2007 when she had spinal cord lesion after a blood vessel burst in her back while she slept.

Background A former bar manager, Underwood now uses a wheelchair although she is determined to walk again. Initially, she had thought she would be well again within a few months, but had further complications to her condition and been told it is unlikely she will ever recover. In 2008, she received a donation of £24,000 from a mystery benefactor to enable her to fly to the United States to receive stem cell therapy. and in the first series of The Undateables, which was shown on Channel 4 in 2012. Underwood also appeared briefly at the end of the second series of The Undateables in an episode shown on Channel 4 on 5 February 2013 entitled 'Series One Revisited', and in Episode 5 of Series 4 in February 2015 in an episode entitled "Two weddings and a baby".

Personal life In 2014, Underwood gave birth to a son called Declan