Rick Stein: Heart surgery has given me a new lease of life in my 70s

The popular TV chef chats to Lauren Taylor about his life-saving operation and why it led him to cook more simply.
Rick Stein: Heart surgery has given me a new lease of life in my 70s

Rick Stein: “The cardiologist said, ‘You’ve got to have an op, because you’ve got no choice. You have got a choice, you could die, or you could have the op.'” 

TV chef Rick Stein says an operation to replace an aortic valve in his heart has given him “a new lease of life”.

The 76-year-old had been suffering from symptoms of breathlessness for five or six years when he was told he would die without the operation.

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