He is in intensive care with a severe lung infection. He was put on the support machine early yesterday morning, when his condition deteriorated. Best's son Callum, sisters Barbara and Carol, brother Ian and brothers-in-law Norman and Alan were with him at the Cromwell Hospital in west London, where he is on a drip and attached to a ventilator.
The NOTW published a picture today, taken on Friday by his agent Phil Hughes. It shows him very thin and yellow. George had authorised this picture to warn people about the dangers of drink.