{"id":656883,"date":"2026-05-08T03:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656883\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:26:14","slug":"singer-bonnie-tyler-hospitalized-after-emergency-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656883\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Bonnie Tyler Hospitalized After Emergency Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBonnie Tyler<\/a>, the Welsh singer behind 1980s hits like \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart\u201d and \u201cHolding Out for a Hero,\u201d has been hospitalized in Portugal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA statement<\/a> was shared to the 74-year-old singer\u2019s Facebook and website<\/a> on Wednesday breaking the news to fans and acknowledging the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are very sorry to announce that Bonnie has been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home, for emergency intestinal surgery,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThe surgery went well and she is now recuperating. We know that all of her family, friends, and fans will be concerned about this news and will be wishing her well for a full and swift recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, a spokesperson told The Guardian Thursday that she had been placed in a medically-induced coma to \u201caid her recovery.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe know that you all wish her well and ask for privacy at this difficult time please,\u201d the statement continued, \u201cWe will issue a further statement when we are able to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Tyler\u2019s website, the singer was set to embark on a tour later this month. The first concert was scheduled for May 22 at SummerLUST Music Festival in Malta, followed by shows in Germany, Czechia, Hungary, Turkey, Austria, Scotland, England, Romania, Switzerland, Denmark and Wales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in 1951, Tyler first broke onto the music scene with her hit \u201cLost in France\u201d on her debut album \u201cThe World Starts Tonight,\u201d released in 1977.\u00a0 The largely popular 1984 song \u201cHolding Out for a Hero\u201d was featured on the \u201cFootloose\u201d movie soundtrack that same year. Recently, she\u2019s released albums including \u201cWings\u201d in 2006, \u201cRocks and Honey\u201d in 2013 and \u201cBetween the Earth and the Stars\u201d in 2020. In 2021, she released \u201cThe Best is Yet to Come,\u201d her 18th album.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTyler released an autobiography detailing her 50-year career in the industry, \u201cStraight from the Heart,\u201d in September 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer behind 1980s hits like \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart\u201d and \u201cHolding Out for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,317609,134,136],"class_list":["post-656883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bonnie-tyler","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}