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RYAN MULLEN poured his life savings into jetting to the former cocaine capital of the world to have cells from an umbilical cord injected into his leg.
But he reckons it was worth every penny after being hostage to an injury that could have ended his career.
By 2022, former Celtic kid keeper Mullen had torn his thigh an incredible ten times in just two years.
He was still just 20, but knew things couldn’t continue and began researching what treatments were available.
No stone was left unturned until the Morton No 1 became convinced by the stem cell treatment the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant had all undergone.
Flying to the BioXcellerator clinic in Medellin, Colombia — which is infamous for Pablo Escobar’s drugs cartel — set him back £15,000.
But Mullen looks back on it as money well spent after suffering no issues since.
Now 23, he said: “When I was at Celtic we played Rangers in the Glasgow Cup and I tore my thigh, but I blagged my way through it so I could go away with Scotland’s Under-19s.
“I went with them, kicked the ball and my thigh was black and blue. I ended up with a grade 4C, which means my thigh was hanging on by the tendon. It was a 21cm tear which is massive. It was a mess. When I came back to Celtic they weren’t happy. It was my own fault.
“They said they weren’t going to operate and to let it heal naturally.
“I was put back down with the B team, then maybe two months later Covid hit.
“I’d got a wee shed in the back garden, so I kitted it out with equipment to try to get myself fit.
“I probably rushed it, went to Cove on loan and did my thigh again. It was a small tear, but it was another couple of weeks out and you had to take your time again.
“But me being me I forced it again, went to Queen’s Park and in the first training session I felt it. Celtic wanted boys out training full-time, so it was best to stay there and train and get treatment.
“They had won the league and I was then supposed to play the last few games of the season. I played 45 minutes and tore the thigh again and from there it was recurrence after recurrence. I did it ten times in two years.
“Every scan I got back said the tendon hadn’t fully healed. The research showed apart from going in there and being evasive and manipulating the thigh, which isn’t natural, the best treatment was to get a stem cell injection.
“It wasn’t illegal or anything like that. When I left Celtic I had a number of trials and again picked up wee niggly injuries. I signed for Clyde, played games then got injured again.
“It made me think, ‘I’m either going to invest in myself or I’m just going to keep having it’. It was a breaking point.
“My girlfriend Miraid backed me fully to go and get it done. So did my mum Margaret and dad Anthony, as well as my brothers Sean and Anthony.
“By that stage I had heard through podcasts and stuff that a lot of MMA fighters and footballers who have ACL injuries or tendon issues have mesenchymal stem cell treatment.
“The stem cells are from an umbilical cord and it’s regenerative tissue, so it’s natural healing.
“I’d been in touch with BioXcellerator for a while.
“My injury was the August and I was able to get out to Medellin for the treatment in the December. It was once the kidnap capital of the world, but it’s very civilised now and really nice.
“As part of the treatment they showed you Medellin and what it had to offer. I’d got all my scan reports from before and the treatment itself was via an ultrasound guided injection. The facilities were magnificent.
“It cost me my life savings, probably about £15,000. That was for the flights and everything else and I took my brother with me.
“They put you up in a hotel and the injection itself was the pricey part. But three or four months later I was back playing at Clyde.
“I played throughout the play-offs, did really well and we just came up short. Touch wood my thigh has been brilliant since. I’ve had one tweak, but it was up my hip.
“It’s something I’m so grateful I did. I feel it’s really changed my career, not just physically but mentally too.
“Going in and backing yourself, investing all your savings, trusting the process, taking a wee step back and going, ‘This is everything for me’. If you’ve got a dream, go and chase it, and that’s still what I’m doing now.”
Mullen’s form landed him a switch to Morton in 2023, and he has now established himself as first pick under gaffer Dougie Imrie. They sit seventh ahead of this weekend’s visit from title-chasing Ayr United.
Mullen added: “Coming to Morton has been a really positive move for me.
“I’ve been able to play games and I feel as though I’ve played well. I’ve impacted the team in a positive way.
“I feel as though we’ve changed the style of play a lot this year and it suits me playing out from the back.
“I’ve made crucial saves at important points and as a team we’re starting to gel a lot more now.”
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EVER since Dancing on Ice made its debut on ITV in 2006, hapless celebrity amateurs have attempted elegant figure skating with various degrees of success.
Every year celebrity contestants seem to skid into trouble, splitting their costumes and injuring themselves on the ice.
This Sunday, Dancing On Ice is due to crown its seventeenth winner, with Michaela Strachen favourite to take the crown.
But almost every series has been plagued with embarrassing moments – from wardrobe malfunctions to shocking falls.
Here we look at the cringe-making moments that kept us glued to the ITV show.
Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson was voted off Dancing On Ice in 2013 after suffering an excruciating wardrobe malfunction.
During the dance-off with her professional partner Matt Evers, the actress’ tight dress failed to contain her ample cleavage.
She was one of the biggest celebs to ever compete in the show when she signed onto compete in the eighth series of the competition.
Despite a decent score from the judges, she failed to impress the viewers at home with her skating ability, as she found herself in bottom two in the first week.
However, her second performance did not go to plan as she stumbled into a major malfunction when her dress fell off, and it was game over.
Fortunately the wardrobe team was prepared for disaster and Pamela, 57, was wearing matching white and silver nipple covers under her frock to protect her modesty.
It was just as well since her right breast almost completely escaped from the tight dress during the performance.
Towie star Joey Essex shocked TV audiences in 2023 when he leaned in for a toe-curling attempt at a smooch with dance partner Vanessa Bauer at the end of their performance.
The pair had been linked together off screen too, but never confirmed or denied their real life romance.
Joey, 34, appeared to confirm what was going on behind the scenes as he attempted to plant a kiss on her lips.
But Vanessa laughed and leaned away uncomfortably at the last second.
Towie fans rejoiced when Gemma Collins signed up for the eleventh series of the show in 2019.
But amid rumours of her diva-like backstage behaviour that year, Gemma also had a furious bust up with judge Jason Gardiner and 83 angry viewers complained to Ofcom when the TOWIE star accused the judge of being ‘a bully’.
What had started as a dream, turned into a nightmare for the reality TV star as rumours swirled surrounding her behaviour off set, thanks to comments made by judge Jason Gardiner.
On the week that Gemma performed an underwhelming routine to Diamond’s Are A Girl’s Best Friend, Jason gave her blistering criticism afterwards.
But Gemma did not take his comments lying down, as the pair came to blows when the reality star accused the choreographer of “selling stories” to the press about her.
She went on to blame him for her lack of confidence on the ice too.
When Jason tried to fight back, she completely dismissed the judge as she loudly exclaimed: “Boring … Next,” starting a shouting match which left the hosts, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, forced to step in.
The following week, Gemma, 44, gave it her all as she tried to up her game for a more graceful skate to Celine Dion’s romantic ballad, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.
However, she was left devastated as she slipped and fell to the ice in the most dramatic way, leaving her motionless on the ground for a split second.
Last year, former Brookside actress Claire Sweeney, 53, was left red-faced after she fell and gave skating veterans Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean an eyeful of her bum.
Following the super awkward incident she recalled: “I’m trying to be cool.
“I get in the dressing room and I’m hyperventilating and then I catch myself in the mirror and my leggings are ripped from the top of my bum to the bottom.
“I’d been skating around with my bum hanging out! Literally my bum hanging out.
“I just thought I’ve got to own this.”
Former EastEnders star Todd Carty was branded the John Sergeant of Dancing on Ice after he bungled his routine as badly as the veteran news reporter had done during his notorious stint on Strictly Come Dancing.
EastEnders actor Todd had an unforgettable run during the fourth series in 2009.
His first two routines failed to impress the judges, but it was during week three when he lost total control.
The former Grange Hill star stumbled and then, in a panic, completely slid out of vision away from the cameras into the backstage area.
After Todd, 61, spun out of control, he quickly realised he had no idea how to stop himself.
The actor skidded off stage down a tunnel and left his professional partner, Susie Lipanova to finish the routine alone on the ice.
Eventually, the actor made it back into the rink for the final pose as the dance was just coming to an end.
By then the judges, studio audience and viewers at home were all in absolute hysterics.
In 2011 former Olympic skater and ex Dancing on Ice judge Karen Barber got caught up in a furious row with notoriously acid-tongued fellow judge Jason Gardiner.
The backlash that followed was so intense that Jason was almost axed from the show.
Jason lashed out at Karen, saying: “If your opinion still mattered you’d be on the panel” in a vicious spat over points given to contestant Johnson Beharry VC.
Days later Karen saved him from the chop, telling show bosses: “Don’t fire him, I just want to move on.”
Singer Sinitta was the first celebrity to be voted off Dancing on Ice after a costly mistake in the skate-off in 2012.
When a complicated move called a ‘frog lift’ went wrong, the pop star ripped her skating partner Andrei Lipanov’s trousers.
As she came to the end of her routine – performed to Halo by Beyonce – the blade of her skate cut through her partner’s trousers, leaving a gaping hole in the material.
After being told she was leaving the show, a shocked Sinitta said: “I had such high hopes for this.
“I was starting to love it. I can hardly speak.”
Former Arsenal FC goalkeeper David Seaman may have had a safe pair of hands as a goalkeeper but he dropped his partner on the chin during a dress rehearsal for the first series.
Then, on a subsequent live show, he dropped his replacement partner as well – and took a tumble himself in 2006.
Although he already had experience from Strictly Ice Dancing, and he ended up in fourth place, his journey was turbulent.
During one rehearsal, he attempted the dreaded “headbanger” move, only to drop his partner Pam O’Connor face-first into the ice, where she was rushed to hospital needing stitches.
It seems that David might have been cursed during the series as he and skater, Natalia Pestova – who stood in for Pam – were sent crashing to the ground as David botched another one of their choreographed lifts.
ARROGANT scientists engineered Covid in a lab – and underestimated its danger before it leaked, the former head of America’s top health agency has claimed.
Dr Robert Redfield, 73, spent his career preparing for a catastrophic pandemic – and was “aggressively” silenced when he voiced fears Covid may have leaked from a lab in China.
Speaking to The Sun for our documentary The Covid Files: Inside the Wuhan lab-leak scandal, Dr Redfield lifted the lid on the early days of the pandemic in 2020 that killed millions.
The ex-chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed how he was in the White House with Donald Trump when he called China’s president Xi Jinping.
From his home in Maryland, the top virologist told how Don begged Xi to let the US send a team to China to probe the origins of the mystery bug sweeping the country.
Dr Redfield told us: “I went to ask President Trump if he would call the president of China, which he did. I was there in the Oval Office.
“But we never got an answer on any of our requests.”
He believes his counterpart in China “felt limited in what he could say” about the pandemic.
If Xi had allowed a team of experts into the country, Dr Redfield says the pandemic would have taken a very different path, and potentially saved lives.
Dr Redfield said: “It would have changed our entire public policy.
“If we had got in, I would have learned, probably within a week, that this virus was very human-to-human transmissible.
“I think they already knew that. They’re scientists and doctors. They knew it was highly infectious for humans.”
Five years later, the world still has no answers about the origins of the virus that has left more than seven million people dead.
The CIA, FBI and the US Department of Energy have all backed a lab leak as the most likely explanation – with many pointing the finger at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
China’s Wuhan lab has been at the centre of the storm since Covid emerged just miles from the facility – which was famous for its research on bat coronaviruses.
Many believe Covid leaked from the US-funded lab during risky virus tests.
[This] is as close to a smoking gun as you can get. This is the evidence that this was created in the laboratory
Dr Robert Redfield
Despite years of searching, a natural origin has never been found.
Dr Redfield, a former US Army officer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, said Covid was “ready-made” for humans and this immediately rang alarm bells.
Scientists have repeatedly said that Covid was “exquisitely matched”, “completely pre-adapted” and “supercharged” for humans.
With the lab’s close links to Xi’s military, Dr Redfield believes the army was looking to create a vaccine that would protect the Chinese population against diseases.
It needed to be highly infectious, asymptomatic and not create long-term immunity – the same features as Covid, Dr Redfield pointed out.
But he claimed the researchers in Wuhan were “arrogant” – and they underestimated the danger of their work if it ever accidentally leaked from the lab.
Dr Redfield said: “They were arrogant. They didn’t see the downside.
“[It was] scientific arrogance to think that nothing could go wrong.
“This was not natural. This was orchestrated. This was a purposeful research programme.”
Just months before the mystery pneumonia-like virus emerged, the lab made a series of suspicious decisions, Dr Redfield claimed.
This included handing over control to the military, deleting the lab’s database of sequences in a “highly irregular” move, and putting out a contract for a new ventilation system.
“I think that’s when the pandemic started,” Dr Redfield said.
“People said I was speculating when I said it came from the lab.
“I wasn’t speculating. I was putting together a number of pieces of scientific evidence to come up with what I think is a rock solid hypothesis.
By Imogen Braddick, Assistant Foreign Editor
FEW of us had heard of the Chinese city of Wuhan when the world was first paralysed by Covid-19 five years ago.
Today, the sprawling metropolis is synonymous with the pandemic that claimed 227,000 lives in the UK — along with its sinister labs where top secret biological experiments are carried out.
Within the first few days of Britain’s initial lockdown in March 2020, as millions were confined to their homes, questions were already being asked about whether Wuhan’s Institute of Virology could be behind the outbreak.
Now, as the country marks the five-year anniversary of Covid-19, an exclusive documentary by The Sun reveals the experts, scientists and investigators who not only believe the virus was caused by a lab leak, but that American scientists helped to cover up the scandal.
Our documentary took me to the heart of the origins of Covid and explores whether China was trying to cover up the creation of a biological weapon by blaming the pandemic on a wet food market 17 miles away.
We also reveal that, while scientists publicly insisted the disease came from “natural” sources, behind the scenes they were exchanging messages about a laboratory leak.
One expert told us: “Watergate was nothing compared to this.
“This is the Chernobyl of biology.”
Dr Robert Redfield, the former head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that a few months before the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute was taken over by the Chinese military while officials deleted its databases and took on a contract for a new ventilation system.
We now know that three lab researchers fell ill in November 2019 — a month before the first Covid cases were reported to the World Health Organisation.
“I think that’s when the pandemic started,” said Dr Redfield, describing a “frenzied cover-up that was keeping Chinese President Xi Jinping up at night”.
The US virologist says he was “aggressively silenced” when he voiced fears Covid had leaked from the lab, where “Batwoman” scientist Shi Zhengli was carrying out experiments on strains of coronavirus.
“If [the intelligence] was put forward in a digestible way, I think there would be broad consensus about the origin of this virus.”
Like dozens of other scientists and experts, Dr Redfield believes Covid had “signature sequences of laboratory manipulation”.
For years, Shi Zhengli – the lead scientist at the Wuhan lab dubbed “batwoman” – manipulated viruses to make them more infectious in humans, experts claim.
And many scientists believe the answers to the origins of Covid lies in the unique make-up of the virus.
Early on, they found the genetic code for what is known as a “furin cleavage site”.
It boosts the ability of a virus to jump between species, and can make it more transmissible.
This feature could exist in nature but Covid-19 is the only one scientists have found it in so far.
As a result, many experts believe it was inserted by researchers.
Dr Redfield said: “The furin cleavage site is as close to a smoking gun as you can get.
“This is the evidence that this was created in the laboratory.
“You ask the question, ‘Why does the Covid that came from bats no longer efficiently infect bats?’
“The reason is that they changed the orientation of the binding site so that it infects humans.
“That was the virology that said this was not natural.”
The virus that came out… is pretty much the virus they describe in the research proposal. That’s the virus that would cause a pandemic all around the world
Dr Robert Redfield
American scientists had been working with the Wuhan lab for more than a decade experimenting with bat coronaviruses.
Just a year before Covid emerged, US researchers applied for funding to engineer coronaviruses in China.
The 2018 proposal – called DEFUSE – reveals how scientists planned to engineer a virus that has a striking similarity to the genetic make-up of Covid.
The grant proposal was ultimately rejected by the US government.
However, engineering experiments could have been carried out regardless with other funding.
Dr Redfield said: “There are lots of sources of funding outside of the US government that could have been used.
“Most of us don’t write grants that we don’t already have data to know that it’s going to work.
“The virus that came out… is pretty much the virus they describe in the research proposal.
“That’s the virus that would cause a pandemic all around the world.”
