Gogglebox’s Manchester star Shaun Malone, 31, undergoes brain surgery

Shaun Malone has revealed he had undergone brain surgery as he shared a photo from his hospital bed

Gogglebox star Shaun Malone has revealed he had undergone brain surgery as he shared a photo from his hospital bed.

The 31-year-old came to fame alongside his family, from Manchester, as they made their debut on the iconic Channel 4 show in 2014. He has been open about his health battles in that time, having been diagnosed with a brain condition in 2010 after initially getting sinusitis.

Now, Shaun has offered an update on his health, revealing that he went under the knife for another operation – and was struggling with his recovery due to the record-breaking temperatures sweeping across the country, reports the Mirror.

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“Heatwave is a terrible time to be stuck in hospital until Friday,” he penned beside a close-up photo of his post-surgery scar, which he shared to his Instagram Story. “Brain surgery is deffo not the highlight of my year [sic].”

Shaun joined Gogglebox in the fourth season, more than a decade ago, and delighted viewers with his TV quips beside his dad, Tom, mum Julie, and siblings Tom Jr and Vanessa

Shaun was in and out of the hospital when he was a teenager, after contracting a life-threatening infection while battling sinusitis. He previously spoke about his illness during an appearance on the Coaching From The Sofa podcast, explaining that doctors gave him less than 10% chance of surviving.

“In 2010 I got sinusitis and in some way, the infection found its way back to my brain. My brain started swelling and my skull started crushing it so my mum took me to A&E saying, ‘Look he’s poorly!’ and they said it was sinusitis,” he said at the time.

“And then I collapsed one day at home and I ended up going into a coma and they said to my mum and dad that I had a less than 10 per cent chance of living. I was in a coma for a few weeks – and they said to my mum and dad, ‘Shaun’s got brain damage, we don’t know what the brain damage is or how it’ll affect him or if it’s going to be really bad.

“And when I woke up my brain damage affected me in some ways, like my memory but mostly the way it affected me was with my left side. I essentially had a stroke, I couldn’t move my left arm, my left leg, even the left side of my face.”