The veteran journalist, Charlie Rose opens up about his heart surgery “I’m a bionic man” says Rose

Published on August 1, 2017 | Published By: Stanley Williams | In Lifestyle

Charlie Rose, who started as a weekend reporter for “WPIX-TV” in 1972 has now spent his 47 years in the field of journalism. Influencing people and encouraging them has always been a great personality of Rose.

However, being 80 years old has been a sort of disadvantage for Rose lately. At the age of 80, anyone can suffer from various diseases as aging is followed by weakness.

Rose went through heart surgery back in February and after 5 months, he has finally shared how he is feeling after the surgery.

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A bionic man

Rose was the guest on the Late Show hosted by Stephen Colbert which was aired on the 25th of June. The cheerful Rose didn’t stop himself from making the atmosphere light and fun. Although he was the one being interviewed, he made the show his own, we can say.

Source: Getty Images (Charlie Rose and Stephen Colbert)

After being called out in the set, they talked about the Boy Scouts and Rose, himself being a Northern Boy Scout. The second thing that came up in the interview was, of course, heart surgery. Stephen asked about his condition after undergoing heart surgery.

“How are you doing? Since the last time we had you on here, you had heart surgery in February. Are they building a bigger, better, indestructible Charlie Rose?“

And the reply from Rose was just simple:

“A bionic Man.”

Rose continued:

“I’ve got two artificial valves and I’m not sure what’s next? But I’m ready.”

Of course, our strong and healthy Charlie is ready for anything. After all, he has a long life to live. Even Stephen had to agree that Charlie was still tough as hell and had to show some of his old healthier days, which included his tumbling skills as well.

Ugh! That was just amazing! No one could do that better than Rose. The Bionic Man is just full of surprises, isn’t he?

Pig and cow competing to keep Rose alive

Source: The Hollywood Reporter (Charlie Rose)

That’s not all that Rose can do. Being at the age of 80, Rose has made it clear that his old age isn’t going to prevent him from working.

Even after 47 years, Rose doesn’t think there is a need to retire as he has been working for numerous shows to this date. However, this busy man had to take a break from the surgery.

And that break wasn’t too long let me remind you. He had to stay just a week for the surgery. Yes, only a week.

Rose said of the surgery:

“That doctors went in there and gave me a new valve — a cow valve. And the other one is a pig valve.”

And then he joked:

“I’ve got a pig and a cow competing to send blood to my heart.”

Only RoCharlie Rosse can joke in such a witty way. He also opened up about his work and on top of that, Rose has decided to go on a surf again.

He hasn’t asked his doctors yet but I’m pretty sure no one can ever stop this guy. Rose is just an old man with an extremely young heart.

The interview was just amazing one filled with laughter. I think you should watch it on your own:

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Short Bio on Chalie Rose

Charles Pete “Charlie” Rose Jr., is an American television talk show host and journalist. He is known for his talk show “Charlie Rose” and the show called “Person to Person”, in which celebrities are interviewed in their homes.

He is the unforgettable part of “CBS This Morning and “60 Minutes”, a news magazine television program. This gentleman has interviewed many celebrities, institutional leaders, and political figures, including Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. President Barack Obama, and his wife Michelle, actor/producer Leonardo DiCaprio, actor Bradley Cooper, Vladimir Putin and much more. More Bio…

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