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The 46-year-old music star sang the praises of metropolis medics who gave his father, Colonel Charles Blount, a kidney transplant in January.
The operation is believed to have taken place at Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is now main the town’s remedy of Covid-19 sufferers.
Talking on The One Present, James informed how his dad was on the mend following the operation and was ‘doing nicely’.
He stated: ‘Thanks to the wonderful surgeons, docs and nurses. In January, they gave my father a brand new kidney and he’s now in isolation a lot more healthy and far more optimistic and thrilled due to these guys in Portsmouth.
‘It’s actually wonderful to see the distinction instantly {that a} second-hand kidney can do.’
James is at the moment in self-isolation in Ibiza, the place he described the scenario there as a ‘severe lockdown’.
He stated: ‘You guys, the place you are allowed out for an hour, we’re locked in on a regular basis. I’ve nothing to complain about, I’ve a backyard.’
James’ newest music video for his tune The Biggest is in reward of frontline staff with proceeds from the only going to the NHS and the World Well being Organisation.
The musician was unable to present his personal kidney as he was not the precise blood kind, however following a public enchantment on Good Morning Britain final yr, a donor got here ahead.
It comes after James spoke about his father throughout an look on Free Girls in February.
He stated: ‘My dad is doing nicely. It is a tremendous course of. About 53 weeks in the past a person provided to present him a kidney.
‘My father’s identify is Charles Blount and the person who provided to present him a kidney is a distant cousin of ours known as Charlie Blount – which is identical identify as him. It is a exceptional factor to do.’
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