The Wiggles’ Murray Cook back home and feeling ‘so much better’ after undergoing open-heart surgery

The Wiggles star Murray Cook is back home after undergoing open-heart surgery. 

The 60-year-old was released from St Vincent’s Hospital last week following a procedure to repair complications with his heart.

Speaking to The Daily Telegraph on Monday, Murray said: ‘I’m doing pretty well, I got out of hospital last Wednesday and it’s just a slow recovery. 

‘I get tired very easily but I’m doing all of the rehab like walking and other exercises so it’s all coming along.

‘I was in hospital for a couple of weeks but I’m going really well now. With open heart surgery it’s a slow recovery process but after a couple of months I should be pretty good. 

‘I’ll be back on stage next month and will probably take it easier than I have in the past.’

In an Instagram post on Friday, his band, The Soul Movers, shared photos of the Red Wiggle and announced that they had ‘good news’. 

They wrote that Murray, who they called ‘the king of guitars,’ is feeling ‘SO much better after a few days at home’. 

The post went on to explain that the performer was so much on the mend that he was heading back into the studio to produce new music. 

A further post made on Monday, Murray was shown wearing a mask while in a recording studio in Sydney’s Surry Hills.      

In an Instagram on November 30, the star detailed going into Sydney’s St Vincent’s Private Hospital for open-heart surgery to replace a faulty valve.

‘It’s a condition I have been aware of all my life and I knew at some stage I’d need surgery,’ the 60-year-old told his followers in a video uploaded to his account.

‘It’s a fairly routine procedure but pretty major and I’ll be recovering for about six weeks.

‘I’ll be fighting fit in a few weeks and back on stage playing the guitar, doing all the things I love doing. I couldn’t really get through it without your support.’

Murray’s announcement comes 11 months after his Wiggles bandmate Greg Page, 48 suffered a heart attack and collapsed at a Wiggles reunion concert at Castle Hill RSL on January 17.

Earlier this month, Greg became emotional during a live interview on Sunrise as he recalled the terrifying moment.   

Greg was being introduced hosts Samantha Armytage and David ‘Kochie’ Koch when footage played of him collapsing and almost losing his life.

‘I was just watching that footage back and got a little bit teary to be honest,’ the father-of-four said.

‘I don’t reflect on that moment very often and seeing Grace [a paramedic] there again and realising what happened. It happens everyday to so many people around Australia and these [defibrillators] can make such a difference.   

‘You never know when cardiac arrest might strike. People need to be prepared in every way possible.’ 

Greg has since been given a stent to help keep his arteries open and continues to encourage Australians to learn essential first aid skills like CPR, which can help save others in the same situation.