Since The Wanted 2.0’s first toured in America in 2024, George has been through a health scare of his own.<\/p>\n
Nearly two years ago, doctors discovered he had a blockage in his heart, requiring urgent surgery.<\/p>\n
“I had the pacemaker put in but then it became apparent that there was a mistake,” he said.<\/p>\n
“That made me even worse. <\/p>\n
“So I had to have it removed and put back in and it took me about a year to get over it.”<\/p>\n
He said he had to get through his illness, not just for himself, but for his family.<\/p>\n
“When you’re so ill you’re not really that scared yourself,” George said.<\/p>\n
“You just feel out of it.”<\/p>\n
“But when you see that look in your mum’s eyes and you see what it’s doing to her.. that’s the bit that wakes you up and makes you think ‘God, I have to get through this’.<\/p>\n
George added: “This is a whole new chapter with Siva. I love working, I love being on stage and forgetting about this stuff.”<\/p>\n
The Wanted 2.0 kicked off their 2026 UK tour in Bath at the start of the month.<\/p>\n
After their Manchester show on Friday, the band have four more shows across the country before their final night in Dublin on 19 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since The Wanted 2.0’s first toured in America in 2024, George has been through a health scare of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}