The news was announced yesterday, during an exclusive interview on The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 that Dubliner Dan Kennedy (44) was being forced to drop out of the show due to medical reasons.
On tonight’s programme viewers will see Dan’s reaction when he gets the disappointing news.
Watch the clip here:
You just wanna give poor Dan a hug - but he's definitely in the right place until he's back to full health. He is due for release from hospital this week.
Watch tonight’s episode of Operation Transformation, RTÉ One at 8.30pm.
"We are all so disappointed for Dan that he is no longer medically fit to continue as a leader," Operation Transformation host Kathryn Thomas has said: "He approached the Operation Transformation plan with huge enthusiasm, determination and great humour.
The most important thing for Dan right now is to focus his attentions on getting well again and we all wish him a very speedy recovery.
Also coming up on the show this week, model and cook Roz Purcell returned to her alma mater in Clonmel to lead the girls in a dance routine for the show’s It’s Your Move campaign.
The campaign is focused at encouraging more secondary school girls to become and stay more active through exercise to improve their overall mental and physical health. It has been estimated that 80% of young girls are not getting enough exercise, with some inactive for as much as 20 hours a day.
Speaking about her trip to the Loreto Convent, she said: "To be able to go back to my school and do that was very special. A lot of girls do take up team sports but at around that age they tend to drop it for other ‘more important’ things like being popular and boys! It is nice to go back and show them that keeping up fitness is such an important thing".
Listen to Dan Kennedy's exclusive interview on The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 (from January 26).
For anyone following Dan’s plan on Operation Transformation, his weekly meal and exercise plans will still be available here
Watch Operation Transformation, Wednesdays and Thursdays, RTÉ One at 8.30pm and check out many of the recipes and other healthy eating options here on RTÉ Food.
