Much loved comic Susie McCabe, who won the Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award this year, has confirmed she had heart surgery on Friday – but will still be bringing her show Susie McCabe: Merchant of Menace to Edinburgh Fringe.
McCabe said: “After a health issue with my heart in Bristol and a couple of nights stay in the Bristol Heart Institute I have been given the all clear to do my show at this year’s Fringe.
“Farewell cigarettes and alcohol, hello granola and yoghurt.
“Oh. And an incredible performance from Bristol Heart Institute. Five stars.”
The 44 -year old fell ill in Bristol and called an ambulance which took her to the city’s Royal Infirmary.
She wrote on social media: ‘Thanks everyone for your kind and supportive messages, it really means a lot.
‘Thanks to all the staff at Bristol Royal Infirmary , incredible level of care .
‘I called an ambulance at 9:45 and had been treated and in a Cardiology ICU by 11:45
‘Our NHS is the greatest thing we have and its ours and we pay for it. The standard of treatment I have received has been incredible.”
The comic, who hosts the ‘Here Comes the Guillotine’ podcast with Frankie Boyle and Christopher McArthur Boyd, and is a regular guest presenter on Radio Scotland’s ‘petty and ill informed football show’ Off the Ball, had to cancel a performance in Glasgow on Saturday.
However her Fringe show, Susie McCabe: Merchant of Menace, will open as planned on Wednesday July 31.
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You can read her Fringe Q and A with Entertainment Now here:
