{"id":686003,"date":"2026-01-10T04:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686003\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:41:08","slug":"the-blue-lagoon-star-christopher-atkins-shares-an-update-on-recent-surgery-got-more-metal-in-me-christopher-atkins-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686003\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Blue Lagoon\u2019 Star Christopher Atkins Shares an Update on Recent Surgery: \u2018Got More Metal in Me\u2019 | Christopher Atkins | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Lagoon star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/christopher-atkins\/\" title=\"Christopher Atkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Christopher Atkins<\/strong><\/a> is recovering from elbow surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old actor shared an Instagram post on Wednesday (January 7) to provide an update on his recent surgery.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\">Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGot more metal in me,\u201d he wrote in the caption. \u201cI\u2019ll need to get to airports even earlier to get through security! Lol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows him smiling as he relaxes against some cushions. His arm is supported by a black sling and wrapped in medical bandages with what appears to be a compression wrap and gauze. <strong>Christopher<\/strong> gave the camera a thumbs up.<\/p>\n<p>While he doesn\u2019t detail what happened in the post itself, he did go into more detail in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p>In response to one person asking about what happened, he said, \u201cthousands of baseballs footballs and casting for fish! Sports as a kid catching up with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To someone else, he detailed the series of surgeries he\u2019s had over the years, including \u201cthe shoulder last year, 3 knee, artificial disc and fusion in my back and now a metal elbow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of this, <strong>Christopher<\/strong> says he\u2019s planning a trip to Australia to \u201cshoot a sizzle with <strong>Craig Bennett<\/strong> for a show concept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC Today anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/savannah-guthrie\/\" title=\"Savannah Guthrie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Savannah Guthrie<\/strong><\/a> underwent surgery recently, too. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/05\/savannah-guthrie-shares-health-update-after-undergoing-vocal-cord-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She shared a health update earlier this week.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Lagoon star Christopher Atkins is recovering from elbow surgery. The 64-year-old actor shared an Instagram post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115868970759235344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686003","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=686003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}