Sean Connery is one tough mutha. If he isn’t rendering henchmen unconscious with a single blow as James Bond, he’s wearing stupid red knickers and braces in Zardoz and still looking double hard.
Not even human ailments can hold Sean Connery back. He had an operation to remove a tumour from his kidney a few weeks ago, and proved to be such a hardass that he was able to quickly return to his normal routine – mooching around not doing a lot in his luxury home in the Bahamas. That’s crazy hardcore.
Sean Connery (DVDs) is such a rock-solid legend that it’s sometimes easy to see him only as the humourless, wife-beating, executive-railing
curmudgeon that he’s quite often portrayed as. But even Sean Connery
can succumb to abnormal growths of tissue growing inside his own body.
He was "opened up in five places," a few weeks ago in a private New
York hospital as doctors removed a tumour from his kidney.
The procedure to remove the tumour from Sean Connery’s kidney was
kept a secret from everyone except Connery’s circle of close family and
friends. But now it’s been removed and 75-year-old Sean is recovering,
everyone’s allowed to know about it. And that means you. Neil Connery, the
brother of Sean, said of the tumour:
"As far as I’m led to believe the tumour was benign. He seems quite upbeat."
While an unnamed spokesperson of Sean Connery has described Sean as being:
"Very fit, he’s 100 per cent plus."
And the obligatory politician has even dug his oar in, too. Alex Salmond – leader of the Scottish National Party, said:
"It is true that Sean had a successful procedure carried out some weeks
ago, but he’s now fighting fit and raring to go … as is shown by his
decision to attend some of the Tartan Day celebrations in New York."
Salmond
was sort of allowed to speak about Connery, as Sean is soon to do a
voiceover for a SNP party political broadcast. Sean Connery, after all,
is a vociferous supporter of Scottish independence – he likes the
Scottish weather and taxes so much that he has lived in the Bahamas for years.
See? Daniel Craig gets hit in the mouth once and it makes front page news, but Sean Connery lets a bunch of people hack him open and slice about in his guts and he’s back being slightly hypocritical within a matter of weeks. That’s why he’ll always be the definitive James Bond.
Read more:
Operation on Connery to remove tumour a success – Scotsman
[story by Stuart Heritage]