An earlier statement on Tyler\u2019s website said: \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. The surgery went well, and she is now recuperating.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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
Tyler, born Gaynor Hopkins, grew up in Neath, Wales.<\/p>\n
She was discovered by talent scout Roger Bell while performing in a club in Swansea.<\/p>\n
She went on to enjoy a hugely successful career, earning three Grammy nominations and being appointed an MBE for services to music.<\/p>\n
Known for her distinctive husky voice, Tyler had previously said she had no plans to retire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started singing when I was 17 and I never thought I\u2019d still be doing it at this age. I\u2019ve slowed down a little bit, but I know now that I will never retire,\u201d she told the Sunday Mirror newspaper\u2019s Notebook magazine.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though I was so lucky because I was in Portugal when the first lockdown was announced, by the end of it, I\u2019d had enough. I was going crazy. I needed to get back out there on the road!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Bang Showbiz, additional reporting NZ Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An earlier statement on Tyler\u2019s website said: \u201cWe are very sorry to announce that Bonnie has been admitted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85710,18919,1975,3390,200503,690,6179,5676,42,2862,12811,21666,33450,43,1118,4625,4626,223,40,38,41,39,3940,24465,135157],"class_list":["post-517409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-85710","tag-aged","tag-at","tag-best","tag-bonnie","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-eclipse","tag-headlines","tag-heart","tag-hero","tag-holding","tag-known","tag-news","tag-of","tag-singer","tag-songs","tag-the","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-total","tag-tyler","tag-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517409","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=517409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}