Matt Tebbutt shares real reason for rapid return to BBC's Saturday Kitchen post-surgery
dailyrecord.co.ukChef Matt Tebbutt has opened up about his swift return to BBC's Saturday Kitchen following an emergency surgery that saw him hospitalised for an appendix removal in 2022.
Despite the seriousness of the operation, the 50 year old culinary star was back on television screens in less than two weeks.During a 2023 episode of the Grilled by the Staff Canteen podcast, host Cara Houchen highlighted that one of the top Google searches concerning Matt is related to his surgery.
She remarked: "Top question, very first one that comes up is 'what surgery did Matt Tebbutt have'?"With his characteristic humour, Matt clarified: "That was not my enlargement.
That was my appendix operation about a year ago."His colleague, celebrity chef and MasterChef judge Anna Haugh, expressed amazement at Matt's rapid recovery, commenting: "It was really serious, genuinely you could die from that kind of thing and then you were back to work lickety-split, I mean you were barely in the hospital and I thought you were going to do a show from the hospital bed." "You were so quick.
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