{"id":417259,"date":"2026-05-08T02:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417259\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:35:07","slug":"bonnie-tyler-in-induced-coma-after-emergency-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417259\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Tyler in induced coma after emergency surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Bonnie Tyler has been placed into an induced coma following emergency surgery.  <\/p>\n<p>Aspokesperson told the Guardian the 74-year-old was rushed to a hospital near her home in Faro, Portugal, for intestinal surgery. <\/p>\n<p>She was initially recuperating well, but a further update said she had been placed into an induced coma to &#8220;aid her recovery&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that you all wish her well and ask for privacy at this difficult time please,&#8221; the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will issue a further statement when we are able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Known for her husky voice, the Grammy-nominated singer sang hits like Total Eclipse Of The Heart, Holding Out for a Hero, It\u2019s A Heartache, and If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer Bonnie Tyler has been placed into an induced coma following emergency surgery. Aspokesperson told the Guardian the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,157,111,139,69,1745],"class_list":["post-417259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417259","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=417259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}