{"id":17538,"date":"2020-06-21T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=17538"},"modified":"2020-06-21T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T08:57:42","slug":"d-l-hughley-says-he-has-covid-19-after-collapsing-during-comedy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=17538","title":{"rendered":"D.L. Hughley says he has COVID-19 after collapsing during comedy show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article2044_slide.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article2044_slide.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 6px\">\n&#8220;He is awake and feeling better, and wishes to thank everyone for the very kind prayers and thoughts,&#8221; a representative for the comedian said. Actor and comedian D. L. Hughley said Saturday he tested positive for the coronavirus after collapsing during a show the previous night in Nashville.<br \/>\nHughley, 57, said he learned he was infected when he was was hospitalized Friday for exhaustion and dehydration after the fall and underwent a battery of tests. &#8220;I also tested positive for COVID-19, which blew me away,&#8221; he said in a video posted to Twitter. &#8220;I didn\u2019t have any symptoms.&#8221;\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;padding-top: 5px\" align=\"center\"><strong>Related Videos<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_99353\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Hws9Rjh4fk?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;padding-top: 5px\" align=\"center\"><strong>TikTok Pick<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Watch short video of D.L. Hughley <\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@seanringbellz\/video\/6830460621000068357\" data-video-id=\"6830460621000068357\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@seanringbellz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@seanringbellz\" rel=\"noopener\">@seanringbellz<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>FuckYou<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c Father - D.L. Hughley\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/Father-6705042480422717442\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c Father &#8211; D.L. Hughley<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealDLHughley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by RealDLHughley<\/a> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;padding-top: 5px\" align=\"center\"><strong>Style to wear<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id='sa_invalid_postid'>Slide Anything shortcode error: A valid ID has not been provided<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He is awake and feeling better, and wishes to thank everyone for the very kind prayers and thoughts,&#8221; a representative&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}