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Peter was sent an air fryer by Netflix<\/p>\nPeter Kay shared candid details about his lifelong battles with weight loss and fitness in a new Radio 2 interview<\/p>\n
Mark Jefferies Showbiz Editor<\/p>\n
11:22, 02 Dec 2025<\/p>\n
Peter was sent an air fryer by Netflix<\/p>\n
Peter Kay has opened up about his long-standing struggle with weight issues – revealing he’s shed pounds after “started thinking about his health<\/a>“.<\/p>\n During a recent chat with Sara Cox on Radio 2, the comedian was plugging his latest book, which features amusing anecdotes about his attempts to drop weight through different exercise<\/a> regimes.<\/p>\n However, Kay, who appeared to be in excellent shape during television spots last week, confessed that beneath his trademark humour, he’s been genuinely committed to losing weight for quite some time.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Belfast Summer Series adds The 30+ Club to line-up with Gok Wan set to headliner<\/a>READ MORE: Paul Weller announced for Belfast Summer Series festival 2026<\/a><\/p>\n When Sara enquired whether he’d ever attempted to slim down, the 52-year-old responded: “Only for the first 48 years of my life. Yeah, I had to eventually, because you start thinking about your health and things like that, don’t you? But I tried everything, flaming weight loss groups. I did quite well at one point.”<\/p>\n Remembering an occasion when his diet went awry during an evening out with wife Susan in 2000, he continued: “I once went watching Green Mile with Susan at cinema in Bolton. And it’s three hours, Green Mile. It were a Sunday night, it were packed, and we were sat up back row.”, reports the Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n “But I was sat there, and I thought, well, I fancy hotdog. So I said ‘Susan, I’m going to toilet’. So I nipped out, went down, bought a hotdog and I were doing really well on this diet. I had this hotdog and I am shoving it in because I had said that I had gone for a wee and caught a glimpse of myself. I thought ‘look at you, you should be ashamed of yourself’ and I threw the rest of it in the bin. And just as it was about to hit the bin liner I grabbed it and had another bite!”.<\/p>\n “Anyway, I went back in and ran up and sat back down and said ‘what have I missed?’. She said ‘you have had a hotdog’ and I said ‘I have not’ and she said ‘I can smell it on your breath’. That’s how bad it were honest to God.<\/p>\n “I used to do fitness. My mum had a fitness video once of Rosemary Connolly. Remember them? And I put it on once and I were in the back room, trying to get my breath. And I were wet through and sweaty. And she said ‘now that we’ve warmed up’, I thought, warmed up?’.<\/p>\n “And then I joined a gym in Bolton, I joined David Lloyd. And you think, right, and then you do weights. And then I went to pool because it’s easier. You know why I stopped going? Men just talking to you naked.<\/p>\n “And then I went to high energy aerobics on a Monday night. High energy and everyone would grab a mat. I used to be at the back with a two-litre bottle of Tizer. And then I joined an old school gym under some arches at central Manchester, and a lad ran this gym he had me pulling a tyre outside. Honestly it were awful I used tell him I needed a wee and I’d go and sit in toilet and sob because it were like proper old school.”<\/p>\n The Bolton-born comedian’s stand-up tour has been extended once more, with proceeds from his final Better Late Than Never performances next year going to 12 cancer charities. “Unfortunately, everybody knows someone who’s been affected on that list [of 12 charities] and I just hope people support it,” Kay commented last week.<\/p>\n Speaking on Radio 2, Sara quizzed him about his comedy heroes, prompting Kay to reveal how one of them was currently unwell. He shared: “I have been really lucky because I have met them all. I met Ronnie Barker. I’d always absolutely adored Porridge, used to watch Porridge. Oh. Anyway, I wrote to him, and he wrote back. I mentioned I loved Porridge, and I’d said how much it meant to me.<\/p>\n “One day, this letter came, and it said ‘prison’, and I thought ‘who’s written to me from prison?’ And I opened it, and it was Her Majesty’s Prison Slade, and he’d written to me in character as Norman Fletcher….and he wrote this two-page letter all about being in prison.<\/p>\n “And I met Billy Connolly as well. I still keep in touch with Billy Connolly now and he’s not so good now, but he would still message and that. I think a lot of comedians in this country would not be doing what they did if it weren’t for him. I think so much of it is influenced by him, heavily. Amazing.”<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Kay shared candid details about his lifelong battles with weight loss and fitness in a new Radio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[88,337,97,42619],"class_list":{"0":"post-326775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-real-life"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}