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Monty Don, 69, gives health update after being rushed to hospital with a mystery illness


Monty Don has given his fans an update after he was rushed to hospital last week and was forced to cancel tour dates.

After suffering a minor stroke in 2008, he was forced to step down from presenting Gardeners' World, and later told the Mail in 2011 that he didn't want to be known as 'the man who was ill.' The presenter announced the news in an Instagram video on Wednesday as he apologised for cancelling a few dates last minute from his tour, An Audience With Monty Don Last year the broadcaster hinted at his departure from the BBC show during a Radio Times Magazine interview, saying: 'The logical thing to do is give up Gardeners' World, which is, for all its virtues, a remorseless treadmill.'

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