\u201cThe bad news is that now that the Christmas Gift Of Love concerts are over I\u2019m going into surgery to have the spit [sic] removed.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Manilow explained the doctors do not think the cancer has spread so he\u2019s unlikely to require chemotherapy or radiation treatment following the operation.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe doctors do not believe it has spread and I\u2019m taking tests to confirm their diagnosis. So that\u2019s it. No chemo. No radiation. Just chicken soup and I Love Lucy reruns.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manilow will need a month to recover from the operation so he\u2019s had to call off his planned US shows in January.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe only follow-up is a month to recover and that means we will have to reschedule the January arena concerts … I\u2019m very sorry that you have to change your plans.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rescheduled gigs include stops in Orlando, Charleston, Greensboro and Columbus. The concerts have all been rescheduled and Manilow hopes to be back on stage in February to resume his Las Vegas residency over the Valentine\u2019s Day weekend (February 13-15, 2026).<\/p>\n
His message concluded: \u201cSomething tells me February is going to be one big party … I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and remember, if you even have the slightest symptom, get tested!\u201d<\/p>\n
Manilow previously battled throat cancer following a diagnosis in 2020 but went on to make a recovery.<\/p>\n
He has previously been open about how he became hooked on cigarettes as a child and smoked for decades.<\/p>\n
In a previous interview with the London Evening Standard newspaper, he said: \u201cWell, I smoked for 30 years. I started when I was 9 years old. I grew up in Brooklyn. Then I stopped about 15, 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I just started in Las Vegas and the band and I went down to a little club and somebody offered me a cigarette. And I was back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin a week I was back. Not on a pack a day, \u2018cause when I was really smoking I was on three packs a day \u2013 non filters. Oh yeah. I was a great smoker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe bad news is that now that the Christmas Gift Of Love concerts are over I\u2019m going into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,184,682,2534,797,796,156,64955,121665,111,139,69,1517,6290,42913,1533,102],"class_list":["post-197078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-barry","tag-being","tag-cancer","tag-diagnosed","tag-diagnosis","tag-entertainment","tag-lung","tag-manilow","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reveals","tag-surgery","tag-undergo","tag-will","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}