Max George, a former The Wanted star, recently had heart surgery and had jetted to Las Vegas for his first ever US tour.
The Wanted ‘s Max George has flown half-way around the world to reunite with bandmate Siva Kaneswaran for their first ever show in the US this week – less than a year after he was undergoing life-saving heart surgery.
37-year-old Max had to have heart surgery in December 2024, after he was rushed to hospital following issues with his circulation. He later revealed that he was feeling so unwell, he wrote a will whilst in hospital. Surgeons fitted the singer with a pacemaker a week after he was admitted to hospital and uncovered a heart block.
Since then, Max has returned to the hospital. Just a few months after the first operation, it became clear that the pacemaker had been inserted too deeply and needed to be refitted.
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Then in September, Max again revealed to his Instagram followers that he’d gone to hospital. Sharing a picture of himself in a hospital bed, he said he was waiting to see a doctor but also seemed sure he would be able to embark on his world tour.
Max, who was formerly with The Wanted, has since begun their world tour and reunited with Siva Kaneswaran for shows together in Las Vegas. The Wanted 2.0 is a collaboration between the pair, who are scheduled to play numerous US dates.
Though the whole band went on hiatus in 2014, The Wanted came back together in 2021 for a charity gig after Tom Parker was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
The singer died in 2022, and the other two members, Nathan Sykes and Jay McGuinness, have not joined their bandmates in America so far. But Max and Siva still seemed to be enjoying themselves and posted a pic of them outside the venue to Instagram.
Max revealed details about his experience with The Sun earlier this year: “I started feeling a little rough. I was unable to identify it. I struggled to get out of bed because I was quite lethargic and stuff. But I didn’t believe it to be very serious.
“Thankfully, I’d gotten up to go to my mother’s house to get some rest, and I remembered that my hands were blue, my arms were gray, and I was in the cold. I had trouble getting up in bed.
He continued, “There was a night when my heart rate dropped and I felt like I was dying” shortly after the pacemaker was fitted and before he had left the hospital.
He shared that it was “quite close” that night. My neck was actually closing, which is when the panic really started. I was in agony. I felt emotional at the worst time.
Source: Mirror
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