Jeremy Clarkson speaks candidly on weight loss efforts and strenuous gym sessions: ‘I can barely do up my shoelaces’
metro.co.ukJeremy Clarkson has opened up about his weight loss efforts, after realising that none of his shirts ‘fit any longer’.The Grand Tour host, 62, took matters into his own hands to overhaul his lifestyle after realising that his daily walks – some which are seven or eight miles long – weren’t ‘doing much good.Instead, he installed a make-shift gym in his garden room, with ‘very elegant’ equipment, and got a gym instructor on board to help his transformation plans.Speaking in his column, he wrote: ‘The fact is that none of the shirts in my wardrobe fits any longer, I can barely do up my shoelaces and the only reason I don’t drink more is that I become breathless and sweaty every time I operate a corkscrew. ‘Plus, to get out of the bath I have to roll over onto my front and be driven by a risk of drowning onto my hands and knees.
This is the only starting point from which I can successfully stand up.‘After three minutes on the bicycle my thighs hurt and my heart was like that baby alien in John Hurt’s chest.
There was a very real sense that it might actually burst out of my ribcage at any moment. Small wonder the cyclists you see on the road are always in such a bad temper.
The poor souls are in agony. I know I was. And that was just to “loosen me up-up-up-up!”.‘Only half an hour had passed when I caught sight of myself in the mirror, but I’d done so much I figured I’d look like Willem Dafoe.
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