TV chef Matt Tebbutt has made a welcome return to Saturday Kitchen after he faced a dash to hospital in Wales for emergency surgery.
The host of the BBC One cooking show said there was no way he was going to miss today's (January 29) instalment of Saturday Kitchen as it was all about Lunar New Year, as he joked about last week's stand-in host, Angela Hartnett doing 'too good' a job at the last minute.
After introducing his guests, Matt, who shared a photo from his hospital bed on a morphine drip at The Grange Hospital in Cwmbran on Instagram last Wednesday after an appendectomy, had a little message for viewers before going on with the show.
"I just want to say it's great to be back," said the 48-year-old chef as the studio audiences cheered and clapped.
"It really is genuinely great to be back. Yeah, a bit of a rubbish week last week. Thanks so much Ang for stepping in last week she did a brilliant job, too good in fact, which is why I'm back here now."
He went on to thank everyone for their get well messages and thanked staff at The Grange.
" I have to say a huge thank you to the staff at the Grange University Hospital in Gwent, who looked after me so brilliantly, absolute angels couldn't have asked for.
"So on doctor's orders, I've been told not to do any heavy lifting. No more than a kettle apparently."
It was Monmouthshire-based Matt's second hospital visit in recent months.
In July, he thanked medical staff at Nevill Hall hospital in Abergavenny after he twice needed treatment for a cat bite.
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