Bonnie Tyler has been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, for emergency intestinal surgery, and the operation went well, according to a statement on her official website. The 74-year-old singer is now recuperating.
The health scare comes while Tyler is on the Jubilee Tour, marking 50 years since she broke through in the music business with Lost In France in 1976. Born Gaynor Hopkins, she became a global star with Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero, and represented the U.K. at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013 with Believe In Me.
Tyler has long split her time between homes in Wales and Portugal with her husband, Robert Sullivan, whom she married in July 1973. The Faro admission happened in the country where she has a home, adding an abrupt pause to a touring schedule she said in January 2025 helps keep her going.
That is what makes the news hard and immediate: the surgery was unplanned, but the statement says it was successful, and Tyler is recovering rather than facing a longer hospital stay. For a performer who told The Times she still feels energetic and proud to be wanted by audiences at her age, the next step is simply getting well enough to return to the road.
