Vanessa Feltz has announced her return to work just two days after undergoing emergency surgery.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, the TV personality, 62, shared a clip of herself in the back of the car with a full face of make-up and her hair done up on the way home from a work engagement.
She said: "I’ve just done a thing that all freelancers do which is - you plaster a smile on your face, you put on a great deal of makeup on your face, or in my case I was very lucky to have a lovely make up lady to do it for me, and you just go back to work and you just carry on as if you're absolutely fine whether you've just had an operation or not.
"That's the way I've lived my entire life and=d I'm not gonna stop now..." she continued.
"I'm literally going to head now to Feltz Towers and stay in bed until I go back to work tomorrow morning and not talk to anyone and not do anything - just put a few water bottles by the bed and just stay there."
On Monday the broadcaster shared an emotional video from her hospital bed revealing she was recovering from surgery after she “doubled over in agony” while playing with her young grandchildren on Sunday.
Feltz said that the culprit was a “big kidney stone” which was discovered after a scan and “astoundingly painful”.
She told her followers: “Good morning from hospital! Bit of a surprise. Yesterday I was absolutely fine, completely fine and I had the children Saskia and the babies over for lunch and I was completely fine and not anything wrong with me at all.
And then suddenly, I got this pain and it was just absolutely extraordinary, I’ve never had anything and I've given birth to two children naturally, never had any pain like that in my life and suddenly went from completely normal to doubled over in proper agony.”
Feltz went on to share that she had been forced to call in sick to her LBC show on Sunday evening. She explained: “I was meant to be presenting a show on LBC from 6-9 and I'm normally quite a trooper at this stuff. I could be ill and take paracetamol and just rock on but there was no way I could so I just couldn’t.
“Luckily managed to get seen at hospital quite quickly thank god, because I was in agony. I couldn’t sit down, I couldn’t lie down. I didn’t know what to do, you know when the pain is absolutely astounding.
“Anyway, you’ve probably guessed what it was because if you’ve been through it you’ll know. A kidney stone? Never had one in my life before, never. It was extraordinary 5ml and so they operated.... here I am all dripped up, but feeling considerably better than I did last night....” she continued.
Her friends and followers were quick to send their well-wishes in the comments. “Sending you all my love. You are handling everything like a warrior Queen. Here for you as always x,” wrote Myleene Klass.
“Oh bloody hell V! Super ouch and thank goodness you’re ok. Big love honey,” penned Lisa Snowdon, followed by a red love heart emoji.
“Ouch! Thank goodness you’re in the right place. Feel better and sending my love x,” added Kate Thornton.
