Dan Walker confirms his return to work after secret health battle (2024)

Dan Walkerfinally returned to work on Tuesday after taking a few weeks off to recover from a painful health battle.

The broadcaster, 47, also revealed he has been secretly filming a brand new project aside from his hosting jobs on Classic FM and Channel 5 News.

In May, Dan revealed to his fans that he tore multiple ligaments in his wrists and was forced to keep off the golf course for nine weeks in order to recover.

On Monday, he announced: 'After a couple of weeks of holiday and a little bit of time filming something else… I’m back on @classicfm breakfast and @c5news tomorrow.

'Can’t remember my passwords for anything but I’m hoping they’ll let me in.'

Dan later confirmed on his Instagram that he was filming something new with TV star Helen Skeltonand had been enjoying a family holiday on his time off from work.

In February, Dan revealed that he 'used to cry in the toilets'while presenting BBC Breakfast during his appearance on This Morning.

The former BBC Breakfast host left the early morning show in 2022 to present Channel 5's evening news and now also currently presents Classic FM radio.

Dan recalled that his early 3am starts was one of the difficulties of his job and made him struggle with bad sleep deprivation.

Speaking to This Morning hostsJosie Gibson and Dermot O'Leary on the ITV Daytime show, Dan shed light on the downside of waking up double early for work.

He said: 'When I used to do BBC Breakfast, you know what it's like. If that alarm goes off at three that's far too early, that's flight to Spaintime isn't it.

'I get up now about 5.30am/ 5.45am, which is essentially a lie in and I feel great, I feel refreshed and I really enjoy the job I do.

'By Wednesday I was, like, full zombie mode. And also you get really emotional.By Wednesday I was like, end of the show, you are like, in the toilets just crying.

'Anything sets you off. Someone says something nice about your trousers and you are like [fake cries].

'Not everyday [he cried], but I think you just get a little bit emotional when you are sleep deprived.'

It comes after the starrevealed in November 2023 that he was told he had cancerduring a terrifying hospital stay in Poland.

The broadcaster was taken to hospital after his kidneys stopped working and he was pumped with eight litres of saline solution.

His head also doubled in size and he had to walk around naked as his body was so bloated he couldn't fit into his boxer shorts.

Speaking on the podcast White Wine Question Time, Dan said he is forever grateful to his former colleague Richard Hughes who accompanied him to the hospital back when the scare happened in 2012.

It turned out Dan did not have cancer but was instead battling a serious virus that harmed the functioning of his kidneys.

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