Appearance on This Morning

Bonnie Tyler paid a visit to This Morning‘s studio to talk about the 40th anniversary of her hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, and she revealed plans for a memoir about her life and career, and plans to record a new album.

At the end of the interview, Bonnie was set to perform “Total Eclipse of the Heart” live in the studio. However, due to illness, Bonnie chose to lip sync.

Her manager has issued the following statement:

Bonnie is incredibly disappointed that she had to lip synch on ITV’s This Morning today. However she woke up with a terribly bad sore throat, which was obvious from her speaking voice during the interview, and at rehearsals it was clear she couldn’t sing today. So rather than let TV and her fans down at the last moment she decided to mime instead. In fact I have just spoken to her on the phone and it’s got a lot worse, she can hardly speak at all now.

Everyone should be assured that Bonnie’s voice is still very strong when she doesn’t have a cold, as anyone coming to any of her live shows this year will be able to hear for themselves.

She is very sorry if anyone felt let down by her having to mime, she actually hates miming and never usually does it, and is looking forward to her voice being back to it’s normal strength very soon.