Great British Bake Off co-host Matt Lucas has told how his dad's death inspired him to dramatically lose weight - and he's gone from a size XXXL to a medium.
The comedian, 48, admits he ate so many roast potatoes during the coronavirus pandemic that he "couldn't really fit on screen anymore", but he has since slimmed down for fear of going the same way as his father, who passed away aged 52, just four years older than Matt is now.
He said: "I'm 48, my dad died when he was 52, very suddenly. His dad died when he was, I think, 56. I was looking at the law of averages here. I was very big and I was getting bigger in the pandemic. Not being very active, not going out, eating a lot of roast potatoes. I was so big I couldn't really fit on screen anymore.
