His father died when the presenter was in his teens and his mother when he was 33.However, Paul has opened up about how he refuses to view heart issues as a “ticking time bomb”.Opening up to the Independent in October, he said: “No, I refuse to let myself think anything like that.“And I refuse to sit on the sofa watching daytime telly, counting tablets.“You get people who give up and I get so annoyed.“I think, ‘Don’t be silly, you’ve been given a second chance or a third or a fourth chance, so use it’.”In the same interview, the star admitted he’d given up drinking and lives an active lifestyle.A lot of this involves his work at Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, where he films his hit series For The Love of Dogs..
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