How well-being fanatic Noel Edmonds maintains his hunky physique by workouts in the DARK and meditation ahead of I’m A Celebrity
From lying on a £2,000 electromagnetic mat for 15 minutes every day to listening to electronic pulses, the Deal Or No Deal host has an unique regime
AFTER seeing his bulging biceps and rippling abs in the jungle, women across the country are asking the unlikely question: Is Noel Edmonds a hunk?
The 69-year-old telly legend has wasted no time in flashing the flesh on I’m A Celeb and has shown he is no Mr Blobby.
But even Noel thought his mat was “useless at first” until wife Liz, 49, said she noticed a marked difference in him.
He added: “I could see my hair was thicker, my nails were stronger, the exercise I was doing in the gym was easier and less painful.”
Noel’s enduring looks could have been aided by not eating red meat and his devotion to an alkaline diet.
It consists mainly of fruit and veg and is based on the idea that you can change the pH balance of your body to stave off a range of health conditions including arthritis and liver disorders.
There is, however, no solid evidence to suggest that this is possible. The presenter also points to the fact that he is “incredibly straight” and has “never taken drugs, ever”.
He added: “I was never into that party scene. Even at 20, when I was one of the five DJs on Radio Luxembourg. People thought it was wild but I never even got drunk.”
Noel left the pirate station to join the BBC as its youngest Radio 1 DJ in 1969. He soon moved in front of the camera, hosting Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, The Late, Late Breakfast Show and his biggest hit, Noel’s House Party, set in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom.
In the early Nineties he was the undisputed king of Saturday night TV, with 15million viewers tuning in to watch Noel and sidekick Mr Blobby. But in 1999, amid falling ratings, the BBC axed him. Not long after, his mum died and second wife Helen left him, leading to a painful divorce.
He “never doubted” he would be back on TV, and his return was confirmed in 2005 with Channel 4’s Deal Or No Deal, which ran until 2016.
Noel saves most of his vitriol for the BBC, where he spent 30 years of his career. He refuses to pay his TV licence fee and once dressed up as fictional BBC chief “Priscilla Prim” to bash the corporation, wearing a wig and lipstick for a bizarre “partly political broadcast” on YouTube.
Noel has recently been focusing on off-screen projects, including Positively Radio, “the world’s first exclusively happy radio experience”.
In 2016 he launched the UK’s first radio station for animals, aiming to spread positivity among pets. “Listeners” included a cat that peed on the family sofa and a boa constrictor that had lost its appetite. He said: “People think I should be sectioned. I’m just doing it for a laugh.”
Noel caused mirth on social media that year when he claimed Britain was “full” after getting stuck in traffic. But his problems getting from A to B could be down to the fact he drives a black cab, ferrying about the other special lady in his life — Candice, a mannequin.
Noel bought the doll as a ploy to stop people flagging him down. But she is now an integral member of the Edmonds clan, with a full wardrobe and Twitter account.
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My first hormonal whiff of the new Noel came from last week’s pre-jungle photo op.
In snug jeans and a bicep-baring shirt, he looked like that mate’s dad from school you knew you shouldn’t fancy but secretly lusted after.
At 69 he’s old enough to be my dad — yet I long to make sweet, cross-generational love to him.
His first days in the camp didn’t disappoint. Sneering and domineering as the Emperor, Noel showed the camp who’s boss.
But he displayed a softer side when massaging Harry Redknapp’s feet while in his pants. Be still, my beating ovaries.
Watching him on Sunday, I thought: “Phwoar. I’d set him a Bushtucker Trial with a far kinkier meaning.”
Later that night Crocodile Dad-dee revealed his six-pack, honed pecs and muscled arms.
Noel says he gets his figure through slow workouts in a dark room — and I hereby volunteer to help him with the next one. Even Dec had to admit he “looks fit in a vest” (get in line, pal).
It’s a long way from the paisley shirts and lame gags of DILF Or No DILF. And forget the Banker’s offer, I’d like to make Noel an indecent proposal of my own.
He does say painfully annoying things (yes, Noel, women do go to the loo) — but I just turn the sound down and enjoy my front-row seat at the gun show.
Even his bizarrely cosmic beliefs haven’t put me off.
He recently said his parents would follow him into the jungle as “melon-sized orbs”.
I can’t promise melon-sized, but I definitely have two heavenly orbs he should take a look at.
I’m a slave to the lion-maned love god. He may have a crinkley bottom, but with abs like that, who cares?
Noel’s House Party? I’d rather be the only guest at Noel’s next pants party. Just me, him . . . and a sneak peek at his Mr Blobby.
The presenter tried to turn her into a pop star in 2013, releasing dance track Are You Ready? under her name. While his “jokes” may be lost on some fans, others struggle to take him seriously.
In 2008 Noel described how he was regularly followed around by two “melon-sized” orbs that he believes contain the spirits of his dead parents. He said: “Orbs are little bundles of positive energy . . . I’ve got loads of photographs of me at home with two orbs that visit me.”
It perhaps makes sense that his parents have manifested themselves into two orbs, as Noel does not believe in death. Keeping him grounded at home is loyal wife Liz, who he met when she was a make-up artist on Deal Or No Deal.
He recalled the moment: “I don’t know what you call it, positive energy or whatever. All I remember is turning round and thinking, ‘There you are at last. There you are’.” They married in 2009 and share a grand, 17th-century house in the Cotswolds. Now an unlikely sex symbol, could Noel really be crowned king of the jungle?
He told The Sun: “If they do vote me king I will never appear on television again. We’ve got enough problems with Brexit . . . Nexit? Now I’d be very happy to do that deal, but on the terms I win the bloody thing.”
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