JBR wrote:
He chatted about it on his show yesterday - reckoned he could do with losing a stone and a half, but that sounds a bit conservative now I've seen the picture! Still, he was good enough to thank them and laugh about it.
Stone and a half? Ha!
I'd heard it anecdotally over a year ago that he'd piled it on and looked so ill and huge that all the pictures on the BBC site dated from 4-5 years ago! My source says that it kicked off when he quit the fags, but surely not to that extent?
This photo cropped up in 2006:
Again, looking seriously unwell.
So presumably it's taken the fact his picture has been in the paper to make him admit he needs to lose the weight. Or perhaps there is a genuine health problem he doesn't want to disclose?
I'm not having a pop at our larger friends by the way, but he blatantly looks really unwell.