Gogglebox star Shaun Ryder 'only ate fruit' amid exhausting battle with long Covid

express.co.uk:

The former hell-raiser admits he was scared when he first caught the virus as he has “no thyroid” and was worried about what the repercussions of that would be.Not only did Shaun have COVID, but so did his wife Joanne Ryder."My wife Joanne caught it too, and we thought we were dying."As rough as it was, I know it could have been worse.

I didn’t have the worst of it ­because I ­never needed to go to hospital.It got abandoned when the rocker went on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here in 2010, ­finishing runner-up to Stacey Solomon.Shaun, who tours with Black Grape in September, ­explained: "I changed ­manager while I was in the jungle."When I came out, my new manager wanted to build my telly profile.The record got forgotten about."During.