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<\/p>\nMonty Python star Eric Idle has been hospitalised twice in three days with suspected gastroenteritis, the 83-year-old comedian revealed on social media.<\/p>\n
The British-born performer, who now lives in Los Angeles, thanked medical staff at Cedars-Sinai hospital in a post on X.<\/p>\n
“So I’d like to thank all the doctors nurses and staff in the Cedars GI ward for their kindness and help to me today. The second time in three days. I think I’m suffering from Gastroenteritis. I love you people,” Idle wrote.<\/p>\n
Gastroenteritis is an inflammation of the stomach and intestines, typically caused by a viral or bacterial infection. <\/p>\n
Eric Idle shared he has been hospitalised<\/p>\n
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According to the NHS, the condition tends to be self-limiting with most people recovering without complications after rest and hydration.<\/p>\n
Fans responded to Idle’s health update with messages of support, with followers writing “Get well quickly”, “Praying for you sir” and “Get well soon Eric”.<\/p>\n
The health scare comes as Idle prepares for an eight-date UK tour this autumn titled Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live.<\/p>\n
The tour includes performances in Birmingham, Brighton, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bournemouth and Liverpool.<\/p>\n
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Eric Idle thanked nurses and doctors for their ‘kindness’ in a social media post<\/p>\n
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A highlight will be his appearance at London’s Royal Albert Hall on September 28. The Liverpool Empire Theatre will host him on September 14.<\/p>\n
The shows are billed as featuring “rude songs, some singalongs, inappropriate remarks, reminiscences of fame, fortune and rare footage, plus a Virtual Band and surprise guests”. It marks his first solo UK performances since 2012.<\/p>\n
Last year, Idle revealed he “shouldn’t be alive” after surviving pancreatic cancer. The comedian underwent surgery in 2019 following an early diagnosis.<\/p>\n
“Oh, I shouldn’t be alive. I’m a lucky b****** and I enjoy every moment,” he told The Times newspaper when asked if cancer had changed him.<\/p>\n
The diagnosis came with an eerie coincidence. Years earlier, while working on a project called Death: The Musical, Idle had asked his doctor which cancer could realistically kill off a character.<\/p>\n
“He said, ‘Pancreatic cancer, it can finish people off in three weeks,'” Idle recalled.<\/p>\n
A decade later, during routine tests with the same doctor, he queried an ominous blood result.<\/p>\n
“He said, ‘Pancreatic cancer’ and I burst out laughing because I thought he must be joking,” the comedian added.<\/p>\n
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Eric Idle co-created Monty Python in 1969 alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin<\/p>\n
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Idle, who co-created Monty Python in 1969 alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, has been working as a comedian since 1963.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, the 82-year-old revealed he was struggling financially and had been forced to sell his house and continue working well past retirement age. <\/p>\n
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Eric Idle starred alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin in Monty Python<\/p>\n Getty<\/p>\n He criticised Holly Gilliam, daughter of fellow Python Terry Gilliam, who took over the Python brand in 2013.<\/p>\n “I have to work for my living. I never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously,” Idle wrote on social media.<\/p>\n His daughter Lily publicly supported him, writing on X: “I’m so proud of my dad for finally finally finally starting to share the truth.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monty Python star Eric Idle has been hospitalised twice in three days with suspected gastroenteritis, the 83-year-old comedian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,4781,77,512,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-193491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-sgg","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114702519229324028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Monty](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/monty-python.jpg\")