Reality TV Star Recalls the 'Traumatizing' Moment Her Son, 4, Turned 'Blue' After Accidentally Launching Off a Bouncy Castle

Hannah SacksTue, June 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC

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Jess Wright and her sno PresleyCredit: Jess Wright/Instagram; This Morning/YouTube -

Jess Wright's 4-year-old son Presley was hospitalized after being launched off a bouncy castle onto a wooden floor

Wright described the terrifying moment Presley turned blue and struggled to breathe before regaining consciousness

Presley, who has a congenital heart condition, was released with no major injuries but left his parents traumatized

Jess Wright is opening up about the terrifying moment she realized her son couldn't breathe after he was accidentally launched off a bouncy castle.

While appearing on a Tuesday, June 16 episode of the British morning show This Morning, The Only Way Is Essex star, 40, shared more about the "traumatizing" accident her son Presley, 4, was involved in that left him hospitalized after a friend's recent birthday party.

Wright previously shared on her Instagram Stories that Presley had been playing on a bouncy castle and was "catapulted" high into the air and landed on a hard wooden floor.

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"It was awful and traumatizing. We got him outside, and at that point, I just screamed, 'Call an ambulance!' cause I knew he was coming too," recalled Wright on This Morning. "So of course I thought the worst, because you do."

"And he started to go blue, his face started to go blue. And then all of a sudden, I grabbed him off my husband again, and just kind of was saying, 'Breathe,' and he came to. Slowly came to," she remembered. "And then he was crying. He was saying his back hurt. He was clearly in shock. He was clearly winded."

The ambulance came after that, and they were whisked away to the emergency room. Wright said she was concerned about her son's spine, head and ribs since he'd landed from so high up.

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"But we got to the hospital, and as soon as he got kind of stretchered in, he started…kind of came to, a bit," she said. "He was really subdued in the ambulance when he kind of calmed down, and then he started to come to, and he started looking around."

"And he started going like this, looking around at the doctors. And all of a sudden, I felt like he kind of started…he was really scared of going to the hospital, but then he started enjoying the fact there were about seven doctors around him," said Wright. "He was like, 'What's your name?' As soon as he did that, I was just like, 'Oh my god. I can breathe a bit.'"

"And then he started asking about the animals [on the wallpaper] and moving his head, and straight away they knew that he was going to be okay."

On June 10, Wright first shared that her son had been involved in an accident and confirmed that he was now doing alright.

"Miraculously, when we arrived the shock had subsided slightly & pain killers kicked in & a few hours later we were released with no injuries other than a few bruises, a very sore little boy & traumatized parents," she said at the time.

When Presley was 2, he was diagnosed with a bicuspid aortic valve, a congenital heart disease. Because of this, Wright shared that she was more concerned about their son's health — but ultimately, said it was just a "freak accident."

"It was a freak accident that couldn't have been avoided but I will say ill [sic] be more careful in future if the bouncy castle is on a wooden floor [opposed] to mats or I guess maybe grass," the reality star explained. "It was a simple accident that could have happened at any point, it's one of those things."

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