Eighties pop legend looks unrecognisable in glam snap after revealing secret health scare last year

CAROL Decker looked unrecognisable in a recent glam snap after revealing her secret health scare last year.

Eighties pop legend Carol, 66, took to Instagram in December where she stunned fans with her appearance.

She was wearing a grey scarf with the Night of the Proms branding, having performed at the franchise's Hamburg concert in 2022.

The China In Your Hand hitmaker reminisced on her involvement, writing in her caption, "Getting cold here so time to get out my @#notp scarf @nightoftheproms good luck with #notp24 miss it so much.";

Just two months earlier, the singer had colon surgery after finding "something nasty growing up there".

Carol, who is best known for being the lead vocalist for band T'Pau, told fans that she's "recovering well" after her operation in Oxford.

A day later she shared a selfie on X, formerly known as Twitter, from her hospital bed revealing how she's doing.

Carol said: "Day 2 Recovering well from my colon surgery just knackered from the GA it was a long op 3hrs 40 mins huge shout out to the wonderful colorectal team at The Churchill hospital Oxford headed up by Prof Chris Cunningham I have had the best care thank you ⁦@NHS."

Updating fans with the news, Carol later added: "I just had colon surgery as had something nasty growing up there

"But thankfully benign and I wanted to give a shout out to the fantastic colorectal team here at the Churchill Hospital headed by Prof Cunningham in Oxford I could not be in better hands
We hear often how the NHS doesn’t work.

"Let me tell you here it absolutely does #angels #caring #love #givingthanks. I’m recovering well."

Carol is no stranger the small screen, having appeared on several TV shows in recent years.

In 2005, she reached the final round of the singing competition, Hit Me Baby One More Time, but was ultimately beaten by Shakin Stevens.

She also featured in a couple of sketches on the comedy show Trigger Happy TV.

In 2007 she sang Blame It On The Boogie with Gregg Wallace in the BBC series Just The Two Of Us - but they were eliminated in the first round.

And more recently, Carol competed on Celebrity Masterchef - but was beaten to the top spot by John Partridge.

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