diff --git a/ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/__snapshots__/recommendations.test.js.snap b/ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/__snapshots__/recommendations.test.js.snap
index 76a2963aab..ed337e9849 100644
--- a/ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/__snapshots__/recommendations.test.js.snap
+++ b/ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/__snapshots__/recommendations.test.js.snap
@@ -2217,6 +2217,39 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
+exports[`Recommendations Admin API check Returns nullified values if site fails to fetch 1: [body] 1`] = `
+Object {
+  "recommendations": Array [
+    Object {
+      "created_at": null,
+      "description": null,
+      "excerpt": null,
+      "favicon": null,
+      "featured_image": null,
+      "id": null,
+      "one_click_subscribe": false,
+      "title": null,
+      "updated_at": null,
+      "url": "https://dogpictures.com/",
+    },
+  ],
+}
+`;
+
+exports[`Recommendations Admin API check Returns nullified values if site fails to fetch 2: [headers] 1`] = `
+Object {
+  "access-control-allow-origin": "http://127.0.0.1:2369",
+  "cache-control": "no-cache, private, no-store, must-revalidate, max-stale=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0",
+  "content-length": "214",
+  "content-type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
+  "content-version": StringMatching /v\\\\d\\+\\\\\\.\\\\d\\+/,
+  "etag": StringMatching /\\(\\?:W\\\\/\\)\\?"\\(\\?:\\[ !#-\\\\x7E\\\\x80-\\\\xFF\\]\\*\\|\\\\r\\\\n\\[\\\\t \\]\\|\\\\\\\\\\.\\)\\*"/,
+  "vary": "Accept-Version, Origin, Accept-Encoding",
+  "x-cache-invalidate": "/*",
+  "x-powered-by": "Express",
+}
+`;
+
 exports[`Recommendations Admin API delete Can delete recommendation 1: [body] 1`] = `Object {}`;
 
 exports[`Recommendations Admin API delete Can delete recommendation 2: [headers] 1`] = `
diff --git a/ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/recommendations.test.js b/ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/recommendations.test.js
index 699aa84c10..af40c51b31 100644
--- a/ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/recommendations.test.js
+++ b/ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/recommendations.test.js
@@ -703,6 +703,33 @@ describe('Recommendations Admin API', function () {
             assert.equal(body.recommendations[0].favicon, 'https://dogpictures.com/favicon.ico');
             assert.equal(body.recommendations[0].one_click_subscribe, true);
         });
+
+        it('Returns nullified values if site fails to fetch', async function () {
+            nock('https://dogpictures.com')
+                .get('/')
+                .reply(404);
+
+            const {body} = await agent.post('recommendations/check/')
+                .body({
+                    recommendations: [{
+                        url: 'https://dogpictures.com'
+                    }]
+                })
+                .expectStatus(200)
+                .matchHeaderSnapshot({
+                    'content-version': anyContentVersion,
+                    etag: anyEtag
+                })
+                .matchBodySnapshot({});
+
+            assert.equal(body.recommendations[0].title, null);
+            assert.equal(body.recommendations[0].url, 'https://dogpictures.com/');
+            assert.equal(body.recommendations[0].description, null);
+            assert.equal(body.recommendations[0].excerpt, null);
+            assert.equal(body.recommendations[0].featured_image, null);
+            assert.equal(body.recommendations[0].favicon, null);
+            assert.equal(body.recommendations[0].one_click_subscribe, false);
+        });
     });
 
     describe('delete', function () {
diff --git a/ghost/recommendations/src/RecommendationMetadataService.ts b/ghost/recommendations/src/RecommendationMetadataService.ts
index 5006c584f1..c45f9d81d6 100644
--- a/ghost/recommendations/src/RecommendationMetadataService.ts
+++ b/ghost/recommendations/src/RecommendationMetadataService.ts
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ export class RecommendationMetadataService {
 
         // Use the oembed service to fetch metadata
         const oembed = await this.#oembedService.fetchOembedDataFromUrl(url.toString(), 'mention');
+
         return {
             title: oembed?.metadata?.title || null,
             excerpt: oembed?.metadata?.description || null,
diff --git a/ghost/recommendations/src/RecommendationService.ts b/ghost/recommendations/src/RecommendationService.ts
index 8326d54be8..e3dc23d914 100644
--- a/ghost/recommendations/src/RecommendationService.ts
+++ b/ghost/recommendations/src/RecommendationService.ts
@@ -150,7 +150,22 @@ export class RecommendationService {
             return existing.plain;
         }
 
-        const metadata = await this.recommendationMetadataService.fetch(url);
+        let metadata;
+        try {
+            metadata = await this.recommendationMetadataService.fetch(url);
+        } catch (e) {
+            logging.error('[Recommendations] Failed to fetch metadata for url ' + url, e);
+
+            return {
+                url: url,
+                title: undefined,
+                excerpt: undefined,
+                featuredImage: undefined,
+                favicon: undefined,
+                oneClickSubscribe: false
+            };
+        }
+
         return {
             url: url,
             title: metadata.title ?? undefined,
diff --git a/ghost/recommendations/test/RecommendationService.test.ts b/ghost/recommendations/test/RecommendationService.test.ts
index c7af99693f..0cbe361802 100644
--- a/ghost/recommendations/test/RecommendationService.test.ts
+++ b/ghost/recommendations/test/RecommendationService.test.ts
@@ -280,6 +280,20 @@ describe('RecommendationService', function () {
                 url: new URL('http://localhost/newone')
             });
         });
+
+        it('Returns undefined recommendation metadata if metadata fails to fetch', async function () {
+            fetchMetadataStub.rejects(new Error('Metadata failed to fetch'));
+
+            const response = await service.checkRecommendation(new URL('http://localhost/newone'));
+            assert.deepEqual(response, {
+                title: undefined,
+                excerpt: undefined,
+                featuredImage: undefined,
+                favicon: undefined,
+                oneClickSubscribe: false,
+                url: new URL('http://localhost/newone')
+            });
+        });
     });
 
     describe('updateRecommendationsEnabledSetting', function () {