TV chef Rick Stein has said that he’s not going to "last that much longer" in the wake of a life saving operation on his heart as he added how he wants to enjoy life as much as possible. Speaking to The Times , Rick, aged 77, said he had been thinking about death "big time" and had been suffering from symptoms of breathlessness for five or six years when he was told he would die without the operation. He underwent the operation in 2022 at the Royal Brompton Hospital after his cardiologist read his echocardiogram and told Rick that his aorta was failing.
Drugs would delay surgery, but only for a while. Rick said: “And then, a bit over a year ago, he said, ‘You’re going to have to have the op.’ ” He spoke about his manic depressive father and how his second wife Sarah Burns has looked after him.
He added: “But to be honest, having had the operation and recovered, the improvement in my health has left me tremendously optimistic. "Even though at my age and with the normal realities of life I’m not going to last that much longer, I think as long as you’ve got your health and you’re optimistic generally and enjoying your life, you don’t tend to ponder too much about how little life you’ve got left.” He told the Times his Cornish restaurant is in good health despite reporting a pre-tax loss of £347,000 in 2022, as opposed to a profit of £3.
7 million the year before. He said: “I mean, that’s a ridiculous thing. I can’t remember why we were supposed t.
