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Shirley Bassey leaves hospital after stomach surgery

Updated 18:10pm on 30 May 2008



Dame Shirley Bassey has checked out of hospital after undergoing emergency stomach surgery last week.

The 71-year-old singing legend was rushed to hospital in Monaco, where she lives, at 5am last Friday after experiencing stomach pains.

Dame Shirley Bassey Sep 2003

Recovering: Dame Shirley Bassey

Her spokesman Paul Carey said: "She is out of hospital today and back at home, resting up and on the road to a full recovery."

Doctors diagnosed a blockage in her intestine and she was immediately taken into surgery.

The star, who wowed audiences at last year's Glastonbury festival in diamante-encrusted wellington boots, has enjoyed chart success since the late 1950s.

The Welsh-born singer is set to begin rehearsals for her performance at Nelson Mandela 90th birthday concert in London's Hyde Park on June 27th.

She was made a Dame in 1999.

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