TV host blames Spanx for heart-attack-like symptoms

Amanda Keller and Brendan Jones at the world premiere of Unbroken. Photo / Getty Images

Australian TV host Amanda Keller has blamed overheating and wearing Spanx for suffering heart-attack-like symptoms at the premiere of Angelina Jolie's Unbroken.

In a new interview with Matt Simpson and Bruno Bouchet from mattandbruno.com, Keller opened up about her recent health scare, saying the media attention was over the top.

Kellar says she left the premiere and headed home to rest having felt unwell all day.

It was only after her husband Harley Oliver started "Googling" her symptoms did she then decide to go to hospital as a precautionary measure.

"I think it was a combination of Spanx and overheating and I'd had a sore jaw that day and I just felt really sick and thought I am going to go home," Keller said.

"I told my husband I feel sick and I had a sore jaw and he Googled it.

"I knew enough because I had some work with the Victor Chang foundation, that female heart attack symptoms are different to mens."

Keller said she was given the all-clear at the hospital but was kept in overnight and had to take the next day off from her WSFM breakfast show with Brendan "Jonesy" Jones.

"I had some blood tests, I had an ECG and then they gave me a CAT scan just to make sure all was well, she said.

Her overnight stay in hospital meant she had to take a rare day off work and that triggered media reports about a health scare which were unwarranted.

"It was never an emergency but it was suddenly painted as such and then (hospital) media unit said they had had a lot of calls and I started regretting going to the hospital," she said.

"The aftermath was more stressful than the event."

- AAP