{"id":57741,"date":"2026-07-09T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/57741\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:50:39","slug":"bonnie-tyler-dies-remembering-a-pop-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/57741\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Tyler dies: Remembering a pop icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Bonnie Tyler dies: Remembering a pop icon\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ekJHyAscDvo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBonnie Tyler dies: Remembering a pop icon<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSinger Bonnie Tyler has died at the age of 75.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bonnie&#8217;s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated from,&#8221; a message on the singer&#8217;s website read on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will issue a further statement shortly but for now ask for privacy to deal with this tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler had previously been placed in an induced coma after having emergency intestinal surgery near her home in Faro, Portugal, in May.<\/p>\n<p>In June, her spokesperson said the Welsh-born star was \u201cno longer in a coma\u201d but remained \u201cvery unwell\u201d and in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her doctors remain confident that she will make a good recovery but it is going to take time,&#8221; the spokesperson said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs such we are sorry to tell everyone that we will be cancelling, or postponing until next year where possible, all of our remaining shows this summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler, whose real name is Gaynor Hopkins, rocketed to international fame in the 1980s, with the release of her hit single Total Eclipse Of The Heart which shot to the top of the charts in the UK and US.<\/p>\n<p>Recognisable for her husky voice, Tyler has released many hit songs over the years, including Holding Out For A Hero, It\u2019s A Heartache and If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man).<\/p>\n<p>0:01 &#8211; Bonnie Tyler obituary<br \/>\n2:47 &#8211; Watch our full interview with Bonnie Tyler in 2017<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bonnie Tyler dies: Remembering a pop icon Singer Bonnie Tyler has died at the age of 75. &#8220;Bonnie&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[50594,50602,50591,50600,50599,50601,50605,50604,50612,50608,50603,50598,50610,50609,50606,50611,380,379,1238,50592,50607],"class_list":["post-57741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-bonnie","tag-bonnie-taylor","tag-bonnie-tyler","tag-bonnie-tyler-dead","tag-bonnie-tyler-death","tag-bonnie-tyler-died","tag-bonnie-tyler-dies","tag-bonnie-tyler-health-update","tag-bonnie-tyler-illness","tag-bonnie-tyler-news","tag-bonnie-tyler-total-eclipse-of-the-heart","tag-has-bonnie-tyler-died","tag-has-bonnie-tyler-passed-away","tag-how-did-bonnie-tyler-die","tag-is-bonnie-tyler-dead","tag-is-bonnie-tyler-still-alive","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-music","tag-total-eclipse-of-the-heart","tag-what-did-bonnie-tyler-die-of"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116889425406777725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}