Fans and viewers first began questioning Tristan MacManus’ health when he was absent from the Studio 10 couch back in March 2023.
Upon his return, the 40-year-old went on to explain that his absence from the show was due to a bad knee, muscles spasms in his chest and three disc bulges in his neck which has caused him considerable pain.
Tristan MacManus has been host of Studio 10 for over two years.
(Image: Channel 10)The Dancing With The Stars turned Studio 10 star said that he had kept quiet about his suffering as he “didn’t really know what was going on.”
“I had muscle spasms in my chest, which I thought was my heart. In my arm, I lost feeling in my arm for a couple of days… I almost had paralysis in my arm.
“I was running around Sydney seeing surgeons and specialists.”
While he returned to Studio 10 following a cortisone injection, the pain didn’t disappear. Tristan assured fans that he was on the mend in a heartfelt post shared to Instagram.
“Thanks for all the messages of concern but letting you know I’m all good, having lived the last few months in agony with nerve damage in my neck, chest and back, trying to hide the shakes in my arms through @studio10au, @10footballau and then of course The Logies,” he wrote.
“It finally got too much.”
(Image: Instagram)“It finally got too much and I had to go in for an operation on my neck and sort out and take out some rogue vertebrae.
“Out of hospital now, I still need a few days to recover but plan on being back to work midweek and in top form and pain free will keep you updated on when over the next few days”.
This isn’t Tristan’s first health issue in recent years, as in 2021, he revealed he’d suffered from two heart attacks before the age of 36.
“I woke up and I was on the ground,” Tristan told Sydney Confidential of his first heart attack which he experienced at just 26-years-old while dancing in Las Vegas.
“To be honest, they didn’t really tell me there was anything wrong with my heart so I didn’t really think anything of it.”
The TV host’s grandfather had died of heart attack at age 36, the same age at which he then suffered his second attack.
“I just started beating my chest, I could feel my heart in my head. I felt tingles down my arms.”
The second attack in 2019 led to the Irish dancer being diagnosed with myopericarditis, which is inflammation of the heart muscle and the pericardium.
Since then, Tristan has been managing the disease by staying on top of his health.
