Bonnie Tyler Rushed to Hospital in Portugal for Emergency Intestinal Surgery

Legendary pop singer Bonnie Tyler was rushed to a hospital in Portugal for emergency surgery.

A statement on the 74-year-old singer's official website said she was admitted to a hospital in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home, for emergency intestinal surgery. "We are very sorry to announce that Bonnie has been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home, for emergency intestinal surgery," the statement read.

"The surgery went well, and she is now recuperating. We 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."

Born Gaynor Hopkins, Tyler broke out in the music industry in 1976 with her hit song "Lost in France." She later became a global superstar with hits like "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero."

She stayed popular in Europe through the 1990s and competed for the U.K. in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with "Believe in Me." Tyler has continued performing into the 2020s and is currently on the Jubilee Tour celebrating 50 years since her start in the music industry.

"Touring keeps me going. I consider myself a working-class girl, and I've never stopped working," she told The Times in January 2025. "Moving my parents from the council house where I was brought up to a cottage in Mumbles is the thing I'm most proud of, but it does feel like an achievement to still be wanted by audiences at my age. I'm pretty energetic."

Her most iconic songs came out in the 1980s but remain relevant. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" has become the unofficial anthem for solar and lunar eclipses.

"I still get excited when I hear the song on the radio," she told Good Morning America in April 2024. "Every time the eclipse comes, everyone all over the world, they play 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' and I never get tired of singing it."

Tyler said the song was written and produced by Jim Steinman, who often worked with Meat Loaf and Celine Dion.

Forty-one years after its 1983 release, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" hit No. 2 on the U.S. iTunes charts before the total solar eclipse in April 2024. It also entered YouTube's top 100 music video chart for the first time, at number 84.

Tyler has been married since July 1973 to Robert Sullivan, a former Olympic judo competitor and real estate developer. The couple have no children and split time between homes in Wales and Portugal.

"I met my husband when I started singing in nightclubs in Swansea because he was a club manager," she told The Times. "We got married in 1973. I think the secret to our success is that we met before I was famous. We don't have children because we left it too late to stop taking precautions, and then I had a miscarriage when I was 40."

"I was unlucky, but I love all my nieces and nephews," she added. "Our house in Mumbles is like Paddington station because everyone wants to come and visit Auntie Gaynor."