In September, James revealed he would be pulling out of the tour.<\/p>\n
He wrote on Instagram at the time: \u201cThe VS tour kicks off tomorrow night in Birmingham and as excited as I\u2019ve been all year for this tour to begin, I\u2019m really sorry to say that over the last eight days it has become clear that I am not in good enough health to play these shows.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of information I still don\u2019t have about my condition but my bandmates, management and I are unanimous in deciding that I should focus on the medical stuff for now. I really hope I can be in a position to come back further down the line. It\u2019s still going to be an amazing show and I will miss being there! See you all as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added in a caption: \u201cFeeling grateful to have the support of my girlfriend and my family. Taking a break for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
James\u2019 bandmates have frequently mentioned him during the tour, with Matt Willis telling fans he was \u201creally f****** sick\u201d.<\/p>\n
Matt said on stage: \u201cOkay, you may have noticed our best friend is not here tonight. James Bourne is really f****** sick and we love him and we miss him. This is the first show we\u2019ve ever played without him and it\u2019s really weird. But we\u2019re gonna do the best we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that it had \u201chappened f****** fast\u201d, and went on to say \u201chealth is wealth\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In September, James revealed he would be pulling out of the tour. He wrote on Instagram at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[131805,191757,430,156,8141,305,1360,95458,78,14054,424,661,4977,111,139,69,6744,2170,312,3271,6290,1361,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-364779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bourne","9":"tag-busteds","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-extend","13":"tag-have","14":"tag-having","15":"tag-i","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-james","18":"tag-life","19":"tag-major","20":"tag-my","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-place","25":"tag-plan","26":"tag-says","27":"tag-should","28":"tag-surgery","29":"tag-that","30":"tag-to"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364779","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=364779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}