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Tony Blackburn admits health issue forced him to cut back on tour dates: ‘It was too much’

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BBC Radio 2 DJ Tony Blackburn spoke about being forced to cut down on his Sounds of the 60s tour dates last year due to some serious health issues. The I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! winner spent two months in hospital with sepsis, pneumonia and blood poisoning.

According to the NHS, Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection that happens when your immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage your body’s own tissues and organs. The health scare forced him to pull out of his tour at the time, but it has now since resumed and is proving to be as popular as ever.

In a wider chat about keeping his home gas-safe with Gas Safe Register, 81-year-old Tony spoke about things getting “too much” in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk. He said: “On Radio 2, I’ve got my shows there and I’m also travelling around with the theatre show, which I love doing.

Confirming that he will be on the road again this month, he continued proudly: “I mean, it’s been going for four years. But since I was in hospital last year… I was doing two or three a week, which was a bit too much.

“I’m doing one a week now, which is much better,” he added. “We got a lovely band and the singers and everything – we get on so well. It’s just a lovely thing to do.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the BBC veteran also opened up about his decision to quit his job at BBC Radio London.

After 40 years at the station the DJ, who first joined in 1981, hosted his last Soul On Sunday in December 2023.

He explained: “Local radio is a bit up in the air at the moment; everybody’s doing this, that and the other.

“I was having to go out on Fridays and just record an hour’s programme – and, to be honest with you, I’m quite busy at the moment.

“It was just going to one station and I thought it really didn’t make much sense. And I had a couple of weeks to go on my contract, so I said, ‘I think I’ll just give this one up, because I’m doing a four-hour show elsewhere.’”

 

The star clarified that he will still be continuing his work on other BBC radio channels, including BBC Radio 2, BBC Berkshire and Radio Solent.

Tony also spoke about the importance of grandparents getting clued up on gas safety, as nine in ten (86%) UK grandparents provide some form of childcare for their grandchildren during the week, according to research from Gas Safe Register.

The research goes on to reveal that, despite nearly half (46%) of grandparents claiming to be more clued up on home safety measures than their adult children, only 16% were able to correctly identify all the seven crucial warning signs that indicate gas appliances in the home could be faulty or unsafe.

Radio veteran Tony Blackburn OBE has teamed up with Gas Safe Register to help the nation’s grandparents (and entire families) get clued up on how to be gas-safe in the home this winter.

To find a local Gas Safe registered engineer in your area, and for further gas safety tips this winter and beyond, visit or call 0800 408 5500.

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