Arnold Schwarzenegger ready for TV return after having pacemaker fitted

The 76-year-old actor star shared a photo on Instagram, and said he was “ready to film” the second season of his action-adventure Netflix show Fubar next month, despite his recent surgery.

Schwarzenegger was born with a genetic heart condition called bicuspid aortic valve, which means the aortic valve in his heart is made up of only two small parts instead of three.

He has previously had three heart procedures, a pulmonic valve replacement in 1997, open-heart surgery to replace the ageing pulmonic valve in 2018, and surgery to replace his aortic valve in 2020.

When sharing the news he’d had a pacemaker fitted on his podcast Arnold’s Pump Club, the Terminator star joked he had become “a little bit more of a machine” after the operation.

He has said sharing his health news went against his Austrian upbringing, “where nobody ever talked about medical issues. Everything related to healthcare was kept to yourself.”

He went on to say many people with the same condition had sent him messages since he had spoken about his previous valve replacement surgeries, adding: “Since I know that going against my secretive instinct and being transparent helps people, it only feels right to talk about this.”

Schwarzenegger said had to undergo the surgery after doctors found scar tissue from previous heart surgery due to his genetic heart condition.