Sting, 73, cancels award show appearance and postpones upcoming gigs on doctors advice over ill health

Sting has postponed 2 of his concerts and cancelled an upcoming quality astatine an awards ceremonial owed to sick health, it tin beryllium revealed.

The singer, 73, has pulled retired of performing astatine the Bass Magazine Awards this Thursday, wherever helium was acceptable to beryllium honoured with a beingness accomplishment award.

The Police frontman has besides pushed backmost U.S. gigs successful Phoenix, Arizona, and Wheatland, California, until aboriginal this period portion helium recovers.

A spokesperson for Sting confirmed successful a societal media station that fans should support clasp of their archetypal tickets for erstwhile the day is rearranged.

Sting - whose existent sanction is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner - sent his apologies to those owed to be the performance and thanked them for being knowing successful the unexpected circumstances. 

A station connected his Instagram page, read: 'On advisement from his doctor, owed to illness, it is with sincere regret that Sting indispensable cancel his quality astatine the Bass Magazine Awards this Thursday...

'And postpone his STING 3.0 concerts successful Phoenix, AZ (originally scheduled for January 24) to June 1 and Wheatland, CA (originally scheduled for January 26) to May 28 arsenic good arsenic his show astatine the Cherrytree Music Company's 20th anniversary, present taking spot May 29.

'Fans should clasp their tickets for the postponed shows, arsenic they volition beryllium honoured connected the caller dates.

'Sting sincerely apologises for immoderate inconvenience and extends his gratitude to the fans for their understanding.'

Fans of the British prima took to the comments conception of the station to privation him a speedy betterment pursuing the announcement.

Sharing their messages, they wrote: 'Wishing you a speedy betterment and tons of healing clip with adjacent and beloved ones'; 'Get good soon'; 'Prayers of healing to you! AMEN!'; 'Take attraction and get well';

'Stingooo get good soon. Sending you hugs!'; 'Get good soon. Sending prayers'; 'Rest well, Sting'; 'Please get good soon Sting, overmuch love'; 'Get good soon maestro. Greetings from Chile! See you soon';

'Sending Sting emotion and healing'; 'Get amended sooooon!'; 'Hopefully the LA Fire Aid amusement is inactive on. I'd emotion to perceive No Doubt and Sting sing Message In A Bottle successful 2025'.

Sting is adjacent slated to execute connected February 8 astatine the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, according to his circuit dates.

Despite the quality that helium has been forced to propulsion retired of respective appearances owed to illness, Sting has ever prided himself connected his wellness and fitness. 

The prima has antecedently credited his astonishing signifier to his macrobiotic diet, which consists of a batch of vegetables and grains, and aims to debar toxins and processed nutrient that incorporate preservatives.

The fare besides centres astir debased depletion of meat, dairy and sugar.

Sting and his woman Trudie Styler moved their household to the Lake House Farm successful Wiltshire successful 1991, and adopted a self-sufficient diet, increasing integrated veggies ever since.

The singer's household ain a flock of escaped scope chickens, arsenic good arsenic their ain trout water and adjacent bee hives for honey.

In her 1999 book, The Lake House Cookbook, Trudie wrote: 'I decided that I would lone beryllium satisfied if I knew precisely what we were putting connected our plates.'

She besides revealed that the mates bask a conscious attack to eating, and judge that the mode 'we dainty our ain bodies is by hold the mode we dainty the planet.'

So devoted is the vocalist to his fare that helium reportedly keeps his ain idiosyncratic cook connected circuit with him successful bid to support it up portion helium is distant from home.

This dedication to a steadfast fare does not forestall the Message successful a Bottle vocalist from indulging successful a tipple oregon 2 and the occasional crystal cream.

In 2003, helium told The Guardian: 'I portion alcohol. I don't fume thing legal. I portion coffee. I similar cocoa and crystal cream. But isolated from that I'm truly healthy.'

He is besides good known for his emotion of yoga, which helium has been doing for much than 3 decades.

He admitted successful an interrogation with his yoga teacher erstwhile helium was 43 that helium came to yoga precocious successful life, aged 38-39.

According to a transcript of the interrogation shared connected White's White Lotus retreat website, the vocalist revealed helium tried different fittingness regimes earlier trying yoga.

'I person been done assorted fittingness regimes before, you know. I utilized to tally astir 5 miles a time and I did aerobics for a while.

'I ever stayed acceptable due to the fact that I’m a performer and each of those things assistance maine to perform.

'But it wasn’t until I met Danny Paradise, who became my mentor successful Yoga, that I started the signifier which I consciousness I volition enactment with for the remainder of my life,' helium added.

When helium deed 60, helium told Energy Times: 'I execute connected signifier successful overmuch the aforesaid mode I did erstwhile I was successful my 20s oregon teens, and I’m doing it conscionable arsenic efficiently.

'Two decades of yoga has fixed maine 2 other decades of this career. I wouldn’t beryllium capable to bash it if I was retired of shape,' helium added.

The vocalist is s dedicated to the signifier and helium is known to bash his yoga adjacent erstwhile distant connected tour.

In 2021, portion connected Lorraine Kelly's ITV show, helium joked his bully looks were owed to 'vanity, and a small spot of discipline,' earlier adding, 'I studied yoga for 30 years. But everything becomes yoga aft a while.'

On apical of yoga, the vocalist besides revealed helium 'swims each day, I similar to walk, and I sing.'

The aforesaid year, helium shared the concealed to his washboard midriff successful a TikTok video wherever helium demonstrated his 'perpetual crunch.'

The Message In A Bottle hitmaker, 70, laic connected his backmost tensing and stating 'Getting my tummy bully and hard' arsenic helium showed disconnected his unthinkable fitness.

He urged his fans to instrumentality up the Sting perpetual crunch challenge, writing: 'You tin bash it.'

Sting and his woman Trudie person been unneurotic since 1982, and the mates stock the aforesaid penchant for steadfast living.

They are besides known to signifier tantric sex, having erstwhile made a throwaway remark astir having seven-hour-long steamy sessions with his spouse successful the 1990s.

In the 2003 Guardian interview, the vocalist scoffed erstwhile helium was asked whether helium had immoderate proposal for radical considering trying tantric enactment themselves, telling his interviewer the signifier is astir 'the journey; adding 'it's not f******* for 8 hours.'

However, Sting did springiness much item astir his tantric transportation with his wife, with whom helium calls his 'church,' and added that enactment was lone the aboveground of a heavy meaningful relationship.

Trudie and Sting, who person 4 children together, joined successful 1992.

He added the signifier of tantra was astir however you link to your partner, which tin hap antithetic times passim the day, from the mode you look astatine them to moving them a bath of giving them a massage.

In 2014, helium further clarify his comments during an interrogation for Bravo bid Inside The Actor's Studio.

'The thought of tantric enactment is simply a spiritual act. I don't cognize immoderate purer and amended mode of expressing a emotion for different idiosyncratic than sharing that wonderful, I telephone it, 'sacrament.' I would basal by it. Not 7 hours, but the idea.'

He past quipped, 'Seven hours includes movie and dinner,' generating laughs from the audience.