Between then and now, there have been limited updates \u2013 with James confirming in June this year that he was having “major life saving surgery” to extend his life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Now, in this latest update, James provided positive news, saying: “Wow, what the hell happened? One minute you\u2019re heading out on tour, the next thing you know you\u2019re on the bench and out of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“My condition was serious and the doctors told me I had a few years left to live.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m happy to share now that my youngest brother, Chris, who stepped in for me on tour last year, has saved my life yet again. This time quite literally by donating me one of his kidneys.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I can\u2019t believe how much better I\u2019m starting to feel already.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m still going to need some time, but I wanted you to know that we\u2019re both recovering from surgery just fine. My brother is a hero.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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As well as stepping in for James on the tour,\u00a0Chris also appeared as the child scientist in the music video for Year 3000<\/a> back in 2002.<\/p>\n Chris also appeared alongside James in Son Of Dork<\/a>, achieving two UK Top 10 singles: Ticket Outta Loserville<\/a> (3) and Eddie’s Song<\/a> (10).<\/p>\n During his absence, James continued to work behind the scenes. His musical theatre album for the Steven Sater project\u00a0Murder at the Gates was released in July and was recently announced as a GRAMMY Award consideration for Best Musical Theatre album of the year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Article image: Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between then and now, there have been limited updates \u2013 with James confirming in June this year that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[30850,96,128,50,267391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-busted","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-son-of-dork","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814801","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=814801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}