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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jamie Grierson

Joe Wicks says millions of parents suffering mental health issues after lockdown

Joe Wicks
Joe Wicks hosting PE with Joe during the pandemic. He says he was deluged with thousands of pleas for help from fans struggling with their mental health during the pandemic. Photograph: The Body Coach/Getty Images

Joe Wicks has said he realised the scale of the UK’s mental health crisis when he was inundated with messages from fans during lockdown, saying he would sometimes spend seven hours a day responding to pleas for help.

The 36-year-old fitness coach, known as the Body Coach, will explore his parents’ mental health issues in a new documentary, looking at how his mother’s eating disorder and severe obsessive compulsive disorder and his father’s drug addiction affected him as a child.

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