Paul Hogan looked fragile when he landed back home in Australia last month to celebrate Christmas with his family.
But on Monday, the actor, 83, appeared happier and healthier as he jetted back to Los Angeles after spending several weeks Down Under.
The Crocodile Dundee star, who arrived to Sydney Airport in a wheelchair at the start of December following a rib injury, carried a duffle bag as he strolled through the airport ahead of his flight to LA.
Paul Hogan looked happy and healthier as he jetted back to Los Angeles following Christmas Down Under after touching down in Australia in a wheelchair. Pictured left; January 2023 and right; November 2022
The Crocodile Dundee star, who arrived to Sydney Airport in a wheelchair following a rib injury, carried a duffle bag as he strolled through the airport ahead of his flight to LA
Hogan, famed for his rugged appearances in the popular film franchise, wore black pants, a bright blue buttoned shirt and black blazer as he checked in for his flight.
He completed his look with comfortable black sneakers and kept a low profile with dark sunglasses.
It comes just weeks after Hogan landed in Sydney in a wheelchair, pushed along by a minder.
The Flipper star stood up from the chair unassisted, but he struggled to walk as he clung onto his side, and appeared to be in agony due to his rib injury.
Hogan, famed for his rugged appearances in the popular film franchise, wore black pants, a bright blue buttoned shirt and black blazer as he checked in for his flight
The actor has struggled with muscle wastage and dramatic weight loss after being diagnosed with retroperitoneal fibrosis.
Discussing his condition during an interview with A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw – her last before she left Nine’s flagship program after 17 years – Hogan revealed the benign growth has wrapped around the abdominal aorta and pressed on his kidney.
He admitted the devastating impact on his health has left him pining to leave the $3.5million Venice Beach home he shares with son Chance, 24, and return to the relative tranquility of his home country.
‘[I’ve] been better. I had a problem on the aorta in the kidney and the treatment fixed it, but it shrunk me,’ he said.
He completed his look with a pair of comfortable black sneakers and kept a low profile with dark sunglasses
It comes just weeks after Hogan appeared very frail as he landed in Sydney in a wheelchair, pushed along by a minder
‘I just… I’ve lost all my body fat and the muscles all shrank and the strength has come back, because it left me feeble. I get Chance to open jars for me.’
He added: ‘Quite a few of my friends on diets hate me for it because I try and eat everything fatty and lardy you can think of. Everything they’re not allowed to have. I can’t put on an ounce.’
The actor was prescribed corticosteroids to shrink the growth, but now needs to regain his strength after the health scare dramatically changed his physique.
Hogan said the steroid treatment was worse than the disease.
‘They shrink your muscles and [they’re] supposed to make you fat, but I got thinner and thinner and thinner,’ Hogan revealed.
The actor has struggled with muscle wastage and dramatic weight loss after being diagnosed with retroperitoneal fibrosis
He admitted the devastating impact on his health has left him pining to leave the $3.5million Venice Beach home he shares with son Chance, 24, and return to the relative tranquility of his home country
‘I’m now in the business of trying to put a bit of fat on… because you feel the cold too much when you’ve got no body fat.’
Hogan now has a pacemaker fitted and says he is ‘being held together by string’ while attempting to work his way back to full health.
The Golden Globe winner said he always ‘maintained’ his fitness up until he was 79, and admits he is lucky to have been healthy for so long.
‘I was still fit. I’d still take out most 40 year olds,’ he said. ‘And then I turned 80 and it’s lovely that saying that “turning 80 is not for sissies” because things start to fall apart.’
The actor was prescribed corticosteroids to shrink the growth, but now needs to regain his strength after the health scare dramatically changed his physique
Hogan now has a pacemaker fitted and says he is ‘being held together by string’ while attempting to work his way back to full health
Hogan has previously said he is desperate to return home to Australia as his health declines, but says he can’t leave son Chance – his child with ex-wife and former Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski – alone in California.
‘I’m not in the place I’m meant to be, but I’m not allowed to complain about anything,’ he said.
‘I’ve had such a gifted life. I’ve had so many wonderful things happen to me without deserving them so I shouldn’t complain but, yeah, ideally I’d rather be back in Sydney because I miss the rest of my family there.’
The Golden Globe winner said he always ‘maintained’ his fitness up until he was 79, and admits he is lucky to have been healthy for so long
‘I was still fit. I’d still take out most 40 year olds,’ he said. ‘And then I turned 80 and it’s lovely that saying that “turning 80 is not for sissies” because things start to fall apart’
Hogan revealed recently he’d been ‘homesick for years’ after the Venice Beach neighbourhood surrounding his home became a magnet for vagrants.
‘I miss the people, the ambience – and there’s something you just can’t put your finger on, but there’s something about Australia that is friendlier and more laid-back,’ he told The Daily Telegraph.
‘It never takes itself seriously – there’s no arrogance like there is in other places.’
Hogan revealed recently he’d been ‘homesick for years’ after the Venice Beach neighbourhood surrounding his home became a magnet for vagrants
‘I miss the people, the ambience – and there’s something you just can’t put your finger on, but there’s something about Australia that is friendlier and more laid-back,’ he told The Daily Telegraph
He moved to Los Angeles in 2005 with his then-love interest and former co-star Linda Kozlowski, who he met on the set of Crocodile Dundee.
He left his first wife Noelene to pursue a love affair with much-younger Linda, now 64, and they wed in 1990.
In 2014 she filed for divorce but they are said to still be on good terms and live in the same neighborhood while co-parenting their son.
In an interview with Sunrise last year, Hogan said he was ‘desperate’ to return to Australia and leave his life in America behind.
‘I am desperately homesick,’ he said. ‘I’m living in LA County, which is 10 million people and half of them have got Covid. So am I homesick? You bet your life.’
He moved to Los Angeles in 2005 with his then-love interest and former co-star Linda Kozlowski, who he met on the set of Crocodile Dundee
In 2014 she filed for divorce but they are said to still be on good terms and live in the same neighborhood while co-parenting their son
