Nick Knowles taking time off as wife is having another major op
Nick Knowles' wife Katie Dadzie is having another big operation after she had emergency surgery after her cervix ruptured following a hysterectomy last summer.
Nick Knowles is pausing work commitments as his wife Katie Dadzie is having another major operation.
The 36-year-old lingerie entrepreneur was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after her cervix ruptured following a hysterectomy, just weeks after she and the DIY SOS host tied the knot at Braxted Park Estate, Essex, in June 2025.
Nick, 63, told the Daily Mail newspaper's Eden Confidential column: "I’ve been looking after my wife a lot because she has been through it. She’s had a lot of tough times.
"She’s got another operation coming up. She has an amazing surgeon going into this next one, so we are hoping it’s going to be the final one."
Fans of the Strictly Come Dancing 2024 contestant will not see him on screen for some time as he cares for Katie.
Nick said: "I will disappear for a while because I’ll be looking after her."
The star knows "she’ll be fine", adding: "I’m always worried [about her], but she’s a warrior and a fighter."
Katie decided to have a hysterectomy - the removal of the womb - last summer after "years of pain" from battling polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis and adenomyosis, all of which affect the female reproductive system.
But 12 weeks into her recovery, Katie's cervix, which was stitched up after the hysterectomy, ruptured, and left her with "crippling abdominal pains".
In September, the businesswoman described "the most terrifying day I’ve ever had” and the pain in an Instagram post.
She shared shots of herself in a hospital bed, with the caption: "The bit where they took my cervix and sealed it up ruptured, which basically meant my insides went rogue, with crippling abdominal pains, difficulty breathing, incredibly painful gas, blood like Moses parting the Red Sea, fluid, and even my bowel where it definitely didn’t belong.
"Saturday when it happened I was in so much pain I couldn’t move or walk and just cried on my own on the kitchen from 2-5.30am. I nearly passed out from the pain.
"Bar the exhaustion and menopause bit, the recovery was finally going well. I was pretty much back to normal - although I started working the day after my hysterectomy, so that clearly didn’t help.
"I was rushed in for emergency surgery.
"I thought it would be lots of waiting round, but they did blood tests, a CT scan, and had me morphined up + ready for surgery in under 10 hours.
"There was talk of my bowel having been perforated, having to have open surgery + another lumbar puncture. I had every situation running through my mind and it was terrifying. They had 3 plans for surgery, and two of them were huge.
"A team of 6 surgeons and 2 anaesthetists looked after me, and made me feel slightly more at ease, during what was the most painful terrifying day I’ve ever had.
"Thankfully the surgeons managed to get me back into theatre, fix everything and stitch me back together. (sic)"
Katie added that she was "very sore, bruised, and exhausted" after the procedure, and glad the ruptured cervix got fixed.
The brunette beauty thanked her mum and the staff at Wexham Park, a National Health Service (NHS) hospital in Slough, for their support and care.
