TERMINALLY-ill reality TV star Jade Goody has been confronted in her hospital bed by an intruder armed with a hammer.

TERMINALLY-ill reality TV star Jade Goody has been confronted in her hospital bed by an intruder armed with a hammer.

Her spokesman Max Clifford said the star's husband Jack Tweed had left her for a few moments when the unknown woman walked into her room at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London earlier today.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “We can confirm that police were called to the Royal Marsden Hospital Sunday afternoon by security to reports of an unknown woman being in a patient's room.”

A woman is being questioned by police.