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Donald Glover reveals he had a stroke on Childish Gambino tour in 2024

Musician and actor tells LA audience that doctors also found a hole in his heart requiring surgery

Donald Glover, who performs under the name Childish Gambino, has revealed he had a stroke last year which forced him to cancel world tour dates.

At the time the 42-year-old said he was dealing with an “ailment” after performing in New Orleans and had gone to a hospital in Houston, where he discovered he needed surgery. He subsequently postponed, then entirely cancelled the remainder of his US tour, as well as all of his UK, European and Australian dates, writing: “Unfortunately, my path to recovery is taking longer than expected.”

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© Photograph: Katie Flores/Billboard/Getty Images

© Photograph: Katie Flores/Billboard/Getty Images

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London exhibition to explore mental health and social bonds in ‘polarised’ times

Artworks to go on display in January at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital

From images of empty community rooms and a colourful canvas crammed with caricatures to a baby linked by an umbilical-like cord to a seated stranger, artworks on the subject of mental health are to go on display in an exhibition that examines social bonds against the backdrop of today’s polarised times.

Artists have long drawn on their own experiences of mental ill health. Staged at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital, in south-east London, Kindred will explore the power of communities to make people feel comforted as well as isolated.

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© Photograph: Benji Reid/Bethlem Museum of the Mind

© Photograph: Benji Reid/Bethlem Museum of the Mind

© Photograph: Benji Reid/Bethlem Museum of the Mind

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Actor Dylan Llewellyn looks back: ‘I warned Mum that Big Boys was a bit raw. Thankfully she never commented on the glory hole scene’

The Derry Girls star and his mother, Jackie, on an unfortunate vomiting incident, struggling at school and ‘bare bottom’ scenes

Born in Reigate in 1992, the actor Dylan Llewellyn graduated from Rada in 2011. He began his career with roles in Hollyoaks and Call the Midwife, but is best known for playing James Maguire in the Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls and Jack in its sitcom Big Boys. He competes in the latest series of Celebrity Race Across the World with his mother, Jackie, on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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© Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian

© Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian

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