'We hit 40 stone gorging on takeaways - now we're unrecognisable and better than ever'

Standing side-by-side, grandparents Jo Beveridge and John Durkin have beaming smiles as they show off their new look.

The Lancashire pair say they tucked into takeaways and indulgent meals during lockdown as 'it was all they had to look forward to', the MEN reports.

But as they neared a combined 40st on the scales, the pair became unhappy with how they looked. Jo, 50, and John, 52, swapped the junk food for homemade, low-calorie meals, and have now been named Slimming World's 'couple of the year'.