I was so fat I couldn’t fit on the screen filming Bake Off – I thought I’d end up wearing the tent, says Matt Lucas
MATT Lucas has revealed how he felt he was too big to fit on the TV screen before his impressive weight loss.
The 48-year-old comic has dropped four clothing sizes in recent years, and showed off his shrinking frame while co-hosting The Great British Bake Off.
While Matt has now left the Channel 4 show baking show, he has opened up about his weight while he was in the famous tent.
He said: "I could not fit on the screen. I was in the Bake Off tent and I was eating so much and at one point I was like 'At some point I am going to walk out and I am going to be wearing this tent'. It was too much.
"Most people who are big don't really want to be that size. With the weight I think what happens if, if you like your food, I like sugar. It is nice a bit of chocolate. l like chocolate of every colour."
He continued during an appearance on Birmingham City footballer Troy Deeney’s new podcast Deeney Talks: "Once you get a bit bigger and your metabolism changes it is different to the person who never got big.
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"You will keep putting on weight more easily than they will. It is battle for anyone who is big.
"I just found I was getting bigger, and bigger and bigger."
Matt also spoke about how social media impacts our view of ourselves, as well as the fact that we now consume more varieties of food and cuisines than we did 30 years ago.
He said: "It is hard for people and now we all wake up and look at our phones and look at people who look better than how we think we look and we get anxious and we eat more.
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"My dad was 52 and he was not overweight but he had a heart attack and dropped down dead. I had wanted to do something about it and Covid came and I saw that a large proportion of people who were dying from Covid were men and they were large and thought 'I have to do something.'
" I did all different things [to lose weight]. There are all sorts of things people can do. For some people it is fitness, for some it is diet and for some it is surgery.
"It is all different things for different people. I don't think there is any one way of doing it.
"People should go to their doctors. I don't want to preach to people."
