{"id":415422,"date":"2026-04-24T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415422\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:46:31","slug":"ronan-keating-addresses-worrying-health-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415422\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronan Keating addresses worrying health rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronan Keating has been forced to deny that he&#8217;s undergoing surgery after a friend reached out to support him in his time of need. <\/p>\n<p>The singer wanted to warn his followers not to believe any strange reports they might hear about him online, and that he&#8217;s perfectly fine and healthy. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/03\/14\/entertainment\/ronan-keating-90s-trend-video\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/03\/14\/entertainment\/ronan-keating-90s-trend-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ronan<\/a> warned his fans to be especially careful not to send anyone supposedly speaking for him any money.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ronan2222437859.jpg\" alt=\"Ronan Keating and Storm Keating during the Marc Cain Fashion Show Spring\/Summer 2026 during Berlin Fashion Week SS26. Pic: Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-2000924\"  \/>Ronan Keating and Storm Keating during the Marc Cain Fashion Show Spring\/Summer 2026 during Berlin Fashion Week SS26. Pic: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday, Ronan said: &#8216;One of my good friends reached out to say, with a broken heart symbol, &#8221; Are you okay, mate?, I just heard the news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Someone posted on Facebook that I was going into an operation.&#8217; Ronan revealed that rumours had been circulating for some time now, adding: &#8216;It&#8217;s been going around for a while.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I haven&#8217;t been in an operation, and I am super fit and healthy and loving life, everything is grand.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ronan.jpg\" alt=\"Ronan Keating forced to deny rumour about his health. Pic: Ronan Keating Instagram  \" class=\"wp-image-2135635\"  \/>Ronan Keating forced to deny rumour about his health. Pic: Ronan Keating Instagram  <\/p>\n<p> &#8216;If anyone reaches out to you on social media, pretending to be me or looking for money or anything like that, it&#8217;s not me, guys, unless it&#8217;s me saying to you, and I know with AI it might look like me, but you know, legitimately if it&#8217;s not through my own channel&#8230; then it&#8217;s someone else pretending to be me. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m sorry if it&#8217;s wasted your time, and thank you for your concern.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> Ronan&#8217;s revelation comes after he recently returned to Ireland for a travel series for the BBC. The series will see him touch on his feelings of grief over the loss of his brother Ciar\u00e1n. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7986bd_63ffb398530549d3bff30abc3ccbf82bmv2.jpg\" alt=\"Ronan Keating, Wild Atlantic Way. Pic: BBC\" class=\"wp-image-2129048\"  \/>Ronan Keating, Wild Atlantic Way. Pic: BBC<\/p>\n<p>His wife Storm previously told <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/08\/12\/entertainment\/celebrity\/storm-keating-kids-dubai-oz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EVOKE:<\/a> &#8216;Our choices are different now, our priorities have shifted, and I&#8217;m really grateful in some ways that from the darkest hour, you get a different perspective on life as a whole, and it gives you strength to do things that you may not have thought that you were capable of doing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel like, for Ro and I, we don&#8217;t live in a box. 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