Monty Don has revealed he was rushed to hospital with a mystery illness over the weekend.

The 69-year-old presenter announced the news in an Instagram statement as he apologised for cancelling a few tour dates last minute.

Monty, who suffered a minor stroke in 2008, admitted he was being monitored in hospital for three days.

He said: ‘I am so sorry to have disappointed all those people who were going to come and see me in Exeter and Truro and Bath and Nottingham.

But on Friday afternoon I was rushed to A&E. I was kept in the hospital over Saturday, Sunday and Monday and had to have drips and all the rest of it. 

Monty Don, 69, has revealed he was rushed to hospital with a mystery illness over the weekend