{"id":2405906,"date":"2026-05-07T12:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2405906"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:10:27","slug":"iconic-80s-singer-hospitalized-for-emergency-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/iconic-80s-singer-hospitalized-for-emergency-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic &#8217;80s Singer Hospitalized for Emergency Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bonnie Tyler is recovering after being hospitalized for emergency intestinal surgery. <\/p>\n<p>News that the \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart\u201d singer, 74, had been hospitalized in Portugal broke on Wednesday with a statement to her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bonnietyler.com\/news\/statement-on-bonnies-health\/\">official website<\/a> and Instagram Story. <\/p>\n<p>\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,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cThe surgery went well and she is now recuperating.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MADRID, SPAIN \u2013 SEPTEMBER 28: Bonnie Tyler performs in concert at Gran Teatro CaixaBank Pr\u00edncipe P\u00edo on September 28, 2024 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Aldara Zarraoa\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\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 the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p>No further details about Tyler\u2019s health or recovery have been shared at this time. <\/p>\n<p>The Welsh singer, best known for the classic songs \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart\u201d and \u201cHolding Out for a Hero,\u201d first found fame with the release of her 1977 album <em>The World Starts Tonight<\/em> and its singles \u201cLost in France\u201d and \u201cMore Than a Lover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She would go on to venture into rock music with her 1983 U.K. chart-topping album <em>Faster Than the Speed of Night<\/em>, teaming up with songwriter and producer Jim Steinman for both of her biggest \u201980s hits \u2014 \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart\u201d and \u201cHolding Out for a Hero.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Tyler became the first British female artist to debut at No. 1 on the U.K. Albums Chart and is the only Welsh artist to have a song reach No. 1 on the U.K. Singles Chart. Throughout her career, she earned three Grammy Award nominations and three Brit Award nominations \u2014 including two British Female Solo Artist nods \u2014 and in 2022, she was awarded an MBE in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours for services to music.<\/p>\n<p>Her most recent record, <em>The Best Is Yet to Come<\/em>, was released in 2021.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/popculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/bonnie-tyler.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-633213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/popculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/bonnie-tyler.jpg 500w, https:\/\/popculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/bonnie-tyler.jpg?resize=237,300 237w, https:\/\/popculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/bonnie-tyler.jpg?resize=425,539 425w, https:\/\/popculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/bonnie-tyler.jpg?resize=200,254 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BERLIN, GERMANY \u2013 MAY 3: British singer Bonnie Tyler performs at Theater am Potsdamer Platz on May 3, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.  (Photo by Jakubaszek\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2024, Tyler told <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/culture\/story\/bonnie-tyler-gets-tired-singing-total-eclipse-heart-108990043\">Good Morning America<\/a> <\/em>that even though \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart\u201d was released over 40 years ago, she hasn\u2019t tired of performing her biggest hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still get excited when I hear the song on the radio,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cEvery time the eclipse comes, everyone all over the world, they play \u2018Total Eclipse of the Heart\u2019 and I never get tired of singing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling the Grammy-nominated tune \u201can amazing song,\u201d Tyler went on to praise Steinman for writing \u201cthe most iconic\u201d songs for her and for artists like Meat Loaf and Celine Dion. \u201cIn fact, [\u2018Total Eclipse of the Heart\u2019] was offered to me before Celine Dion,\u201d she recalled. \u201cWhen I first heard it, I thought, \u2018Oh my God, this song is amazing.\u2019 You know, I couldn\u2019t believe he was giving it to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source popculture.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonnie Tyler is recovering after being hospitalized for emergency intestinal surgery. News that the \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart\u201d singer, 74, had been hospitalized in Portugal broke on Wednesday with a statement to her official website and Instagram Story. \u201cWe are very sorry to announce that Bonnie has been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2405907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[30162],"class_list":["post-2405906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Iconic-80s-Singer-Hospitalized-for-Emergency-Surgery.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405908,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405906\/revisions\/2405908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}