A GOOD Morning Britain host has made their return to screen after more than two weeks away.
During the time off-screen, ITV fans feared the star, 68, would be quitting his hosting role for good due to a number of health issues.
Yet Richard Madeley was on strong form as he returned to the Good Morning Britain studio with co-host Susanna Reid, 53, on Monday.
He was “poorly” and away from screens on August 20, and has not been seen much since.
Yet on his comeback, fans appeared delighted in the freshening up of the line-up which saw regular presenter Ed Balls, 57, replaced.
One took to X to note: “Wahoo it’s Monday, it’s Madeley, it’s manic Madeley Monday morning time.”
A second put: “Madeley hyper this morning.”
A third then commented: “Madeley gets a lot of s**t but he’s still better than Ed Balls.”
It was a hefty news agenda for the former This Morning presenter on Monday.
He led an interview with Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey amid the party’s conference in Brighton, while also discussing a second potential assassination attempt on US Presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
And he showed no signs of the illness worries which left viewers speculating on his show exit.
As Richard starred alongside Kate Garraway, 57, in August, who had let slip his illness, he appeared to suggest he now was taking it easy after calling in “poorly” the previous day.
He asked Team GB gymnast Max Whitlock, 31 – who retired at the Paris Olympics after failing to win a medal – about winding things down.
Richard quizzed the three-time Olympic and World Champion star: “So many careers don’t have a hard stop you continue to progress, or you just slowly, quietly as I’m doing filter to a stop.
“But how do you manage the hard stop?”
One fan took to X to muse on his comments and put: “Did Richard say he’s retiring in that #Olympics segment?
“Wonder how long he’ll stay on # GMB for then…”
Recently, he told GMB viewers how he had suffered “two massive nose bleeds” – with the cause unexplained.
Previously, also suffered a perforated eardrum, which led to temporary deafness in one ear, following a flight and was forced to “lip-red” GMB guests.
Meanwhile, his last time in the GMB hot seat was surrounded in chaos.
Richard was left shouting “oh my God” as the panel were interrupted with an ongoing technical mishap.
