Benidorm's Johnny Vegas opens up on dramatic weight loss after getting stuck in tunnel

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READ MORE: BBC Breakfast guest Johnny Vegas unrecognisable as fans blown away by 'sharp' appearanceAt his heaviest, 5ft 7in-tall Johnny weighed in at around 18 stone but is now down to around 12-13 stone after ditching treats like bread and cheese.Speaking about the tunnel incident, he said he was in a place called Ha Long Bay in northeast Vietnam on his honeymoon with Maïa Dunphy in 2011 when he got stuck.The network of tunnels - extending hundred of miles underground - were built by the Viet Cong in the 1940s as protection from French bombers in the French Indochina War between 1946-1954.The tunnels were used again during the Vietnam War, which raged from 1955 until 1975.Speaking at the weekend, Johnny, now separated from Maïa, said: “Ha Long Bay was spectacular...but I had a bit of a mishap when we visited one of those underground tunnel systems the Viet Cong used to hide in during the Vietnam War.“I was told they’d dug a larger tunnel to show Westerners, but I still got wedged in it.“I got my legs through but then my midriff jammed.”He added: “I was there for ten minutes (and) people were like ‘Shall we go and get help?’ and I was like ‘No, I can do this, please, just pull my arms’.”Speaking in the Travel supplement in The Sunday Times this weekend, he said it was a "wake up call" about his weight.He added: “It was a positive thing in the end, though.

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