Former The Wanted star Max George jetted off to Las Vegas for his first ever US show just months after undergoing life-saving heart surgery
The Wanted ‘s Max George has flown half-way around the world to reunite with bandmate Siva Kaneswaran for their first ever show in the US this week – less than a year after he was undergoing life-saving heart surgery.
37-year-old Max had to have heart surgery in December 2024, after he was rushed to hospital following issues with his circulation. He later revealed that he was feeling so unwell, he wrote a will whilst in hospital. Surgeons fitted the singer with a pacemaker a week after he was admitted to hospital and uncovered a heart block.
Max has been back to hospital since. He underwent a second operation just a few months after the first, when it was revealed that the pacemaker had been inserted too deeply and needed to be refitted.
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Then in September, Max again revealed to his Instagram followers that he’d gone to hospital. Sharing a picture of himself in a hospital bed, he said he was waiting to see a doctor but also seemed sure he would be able to embark on his world tour.
Formerly of The Wanted, Max has now started that world tour and flew to Las Vegas to reunite with his bandmate Siva Kaneswaran for their shows together. The pair have formed The Wanted 2.0 and are set to play multiple dates in the US.
Though the whole band went on hiatus in 2014, The Wanted came back together in 2021 for a charity gig after Tom Parker was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
The singer died in 2022, and the other two members, Nathan Sykes and Jay McGuinness, have not joined their bandmates in America so far. But Max and Siva still seemed to be enjoying themselves and posted a pic of them outside the venue to Instagram.
Earlier this year, Max shared details about what he went through with The Sun: “I hadn’t been feeling myself for a few days, I started feeling a bit rough. I couldn’t put my finger on it. I was quite lethargic and stuff, struggling to get out of bed. But I didn’t think it was anything serious.
“Luckily I’d gone around to my mum’s to stay and I woke up and I remember looking at my hands and they were blue, and my arms were a grey colour and I was freezing cold. I struggled to even sit up in bed.”
He added that shortly after the pacemaker was fitted, before he’d been discharged from hospital, there was a night when his heart rate dropped and he “felt like I was dying”.
“It was quite close that night,” he shared. “It really felt like my neck was closing up and that’s when the sort of panic really kicked in. I felt like I was dying. It was the worst, I felt emotional.”
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