Having gained weight, lost weight and gained weight again for different films, however, when he reached 21st, Chris Pratt decided it was time to change.
Wynne Evans (“Gio” from GoCompare) – a drop from 20st to 15st, around 5st lost
Pretty much everyone in the UK knows who Gio is, the “fat” annoying tenor from the GoCompare ads – he came back to our screens last year appearing to be the same weight, but was he?
Name: Wynne Evans (Also known as “Gio” from GoCompare)
Age: 43/44
Highest Ever Weight: Thought to be around 20st (Around 280lb or 127kg)
Weight Now: Thought to be around 15st (210lb or 95.25kg)
Pretty much everyone in the UK knows who Gio is, the “fat” annoying tenor from the GoCompare ads.
This is one of the first GoCompare ads featuring Gio in 2009, now in early 2014, Gio disappeared from our screens and the rubbishy, “LlandofsavingmoneyandgettingtherightdealgogoGoCompare” ad replaced it, so in his return ad, broadcast last July, here, he looks the same. Right?
No! In this ad, Gio is in fact wearing a fat suit.
Having watched back his old ads, Wynne decided that it was time to change, in the 18 months he was off screen, Evans lost 5 stone, he went from 20 to 15 stone in a year and a half.
Wynne says that he felt ashamed that he’d let himself get into such a “horrific state”
He says he lost the 5st by keeping a food diary and going to daily gym workouts, Evans says “none of my clothes None of my clothes really fitted me, I was thinking about my weight all the time and I hated the way I felt”
However, when GoCompare wanted him back, he was too slim and needed padding out by wearing a fat suit.
He said to his gym when he joined that he couldn’t give up wine, but they said “you don’t have to – you just have to earn it” which he says made sense. He now says he’s never felt better and has lost 6 inches around the chest and 7.5 inches off his waist.
Please continue to post your thoughts and comments and suggestions
Rob 🙂
Dawn French – A drop from 19st to 11st 7lb, A total of 7.5st lost
Dawn French, the Vicar of Dibley to Miss Marple to Lark Rise to Candleford, she has certainly been in a few things, but she has also lost nearly 7 and a half stone.
Name: Dawn French
Age: 58
Highest Ever Weight: Thought to be around 19st (Around 266lb or 120.6kg)
Weight Now: Thought to be around 11st 7lb (161lb or 73kg)
In 2011, Dawn French appeared much thinner, having been large for many years, it was speculated that she’d had a gastric band fitted or had lost the weight following her marriage with Lenny Henry broke down.
Having been large for many years, Dawn has said that her fans thought that being fat was ok because French was fat.
Five years ago, Dawn’s doctors were convinced that she had uterine cancer and advised her it was in her best interests to have a hysterectomy. She was, at the time, 19st and her doctors also advised her that they would be able to carry out the operation via keyhole if she lost some weight, this meant that she would be near enough back to normal in three weeks versus a three months if she had an open operation.
French went on to lose weight, spurred on by the fact that she would be able to have keyhole surgery at the end of it and a much shorter recovery period.
Through “tiny, joyless low-cal eating” as Dawn says she managed to lose 7st 7lb and was able to have the keyhole.
Dawn has continued to lose over the past few years and continues to do so.
MY APOLOGIES AGAIN FOR A VERY SHORT BLOG – HAD ANOTHER VERY BUSY WEEK
Rob 🙂
James “Arg” Argent – A drop from 18st 7lb to 14st 7lb. Around 4st lost
Now, I don’t watch The Only Way is Essex, TOWIE, as it is commonly known, but my girlfriend does, and when I was looking at my spreadsheet of names and couldn’t decide who to do she said “Why don’t you do James “Arg” Argent?” So here it is!!
I APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF BLOG LAST WEEKEND AND THE SHORTNESS OF THIS ONE, I HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY BUSY AT WORK AND HAVEN’T REALLY FOUND THE TIME TO WRITE AND PUBLISH ONE.
Name: James “Arg” Argent
Age: 28
Highest Ever Weight: Thought to be around 18st 7lb (Around 259lb or 117.4kg)
Weight Now: Thought to be around 14st 7lb (203lb or 92kg)
James first appeared on The Only Way is Essex in the first series of the show in 2010, alongside girlfriend Lydia Bright.
Arg more or less immediately became known as “Large Arg”, and over the next 4 years, he became larger and eventually, by mid-2014, he weighed nearly 18 stone.
In September 2014, Arg failed a drugs test and was suspended from Towie, In November of the same year, he reached 18 and a half stone.
He was devestated to learn of his current weight, he became depressed and in early December of 2014, he checked himself into rehab at The Priory, where he spent Christmas and new year, before reappearing in late February 2015, an apparent 4 stone lighter.
In an interview with the Daily Mirror, Arg has said that before checking into rehab and losing the weight, he was “so depressed” and would “not even get out of bed in the morning, unless he had filming for TOWIE to do”.
He’s since given up alcohol, and says sobriety has helped him lose weight. He says he lost the four stone in just over four months.
He now gets up in the morning and goes to the gym, and has adopted a healthy eating regime.
Having never truly felt handsome or attractive and having suffered with issues with his self esteem in the past, James now says that he”now looks how I want to look”.
I am aware of this article , published on Friday 15th January, this article, stating that Arg has regained weight was put live after this blog was created. Please accept my apologies if any of the info in this blog post is now out of date
Rob 🙂
Graham Elliot – a drop from nearly 29st to 17st. A total of just under 12st lost
I should point out here, any weights published here are estimates published in articles I’ve read to gain this information
Although not very well known in the UK, Graham Elliot is the John Torrode of the US version of MasterChef, and he’s also lost an awful lot of weight, although with the help of surgery, he’s also lost some on his own too.
Name: Graham Elliot
Age: 38
Highest Ever Weight: Thought to be around 28st 7lb (Around 400lb or 181.4kg)
Weight Now: Thought to be around 17st 11lb (249.2lb or 113kg)
In early 2013, aged 36, Seattle born, Graham Elliot, had a BMI of over 50, high blood pressure, high cholestrol and sleep aponea and weighed nearly 29st.
Graham, due to the fact his BMI was over 50, was eligible for a duodenal switch procedure, an operation the combines a gastric sleeve procedure (http://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/restrictive-operations-stomach-stapling-or-gastric-banding) with a gastric bypass, however, because the operation inhibits the capacity to process dietary fats, this, due to his occupation was not a good option for Elliot to go for.
With the duodenal switch idea “out of the window”, Graham’s doctor, Dr Prachand, suggested that the celebrity chef have just the gastric sleeve procedure on it’s own, with the option to go ahead with the switch surgery at a later date if it was needed.
Graham went ahead with the procedure that saw his stomach reduced to the size and shape of a children’s size banana without slowing down digestion, in July 2013.
He has been described by his doctors as an “ideal patient”, he was up and walking within hours of his operation. He was willing to regularly excercise and modify his diet after the surgery.
In March 2014, Graham’s weight, fell below 250lbs (17st 11lb), nearly halving his BMI from 50 to 29.
As of August of 2014, Elliot’s blood pressure and cholestrol has fallen and he no longer has to wear a CPAP at night for his sleep aponea.
In May 2014, he ran his first ever 10K run in Chicago, finishing in under 90 minutes.
Graham, now eats salmon or chicken with salad or vegetables for dinner, and satisfies his sweet tooth with fruit and cottage cheese and apple slices with peanut butter (not my cup of tea – but each to their own!).
He says that before he would snack on cookies and sweets, but now knows that because of the size of his new stomach, he just needs foods that give him energy.
Elliot, says that he wasn’t expecting to lose the 11st so quickly, and was thinking he would take 2 – 3 years to lose the amount.
Hope you’ve enjoyed this second blog, please do continue to send me you thoughts, suggestions for somone to do a blog on, and improvements. Do you like the layout of the blog?
Rob
James Corden – A drop from 21st to 14st, a total of over 7st lost
I wanted to start with James Corden as it is a weight loss story I know and then over this week I can research other celebrity losers. Please do also drop suggestions in the comments on here if you have an account and on the HealthUnlocked post that announces this blog. Please do also suggest improvements as, I’m new to this and this probably won’t be the best it can.
Name: James Corden
Age: 37
Highest Ever Weight: Thought to be around 21st (Around 294lb or 133.3kg)
Weight Now: Thought to be around 14st 5lb (201.6lb or 91kg)
‘Fat Friends’
In 2000, at the age of 22, James appeared on the ITV drama, ‘Fat Friends’, as Jamie Rymer, ‘Fat Friends’ was a series about a group of overweight friends and their struggles with dieting and losing weight.
At the begginning of the series, it is thought, although has never been actually confirmed by James, that he weighed around 16st, this grew throughout the series to approximately 17st.
Gavin and Stacey
In 2007, around 2 years after ‘Fat Friends’ concluded, James Corden and his former ‘Fat Friends’ co-star Ruth Jones wrote and starred in BBC sitcom Gavin and Stacey. Corden appeared to have put on weight once again since the conclusion of ‘Fat Friends’ 24 months earlier although this wasn’t a noticeably large amount.
However, by the end of the series in January 2010, Corden was almost at his peak weight of 21st.
Then, in August 2010, whilst on holiday in Los Angeles, pictures were taken of James that really gave people an idea of his weight and size.
The next 4 and a half years
In 2012, an article was published, that said that James had lost around 5 stone, taking him down to around 16st, this was in order for him to ‘look good’ for New York audiences when he took his show “One Man, Two Guvnors” to Broadway. It was stated that this was the lightest he’d been since he was a child.
He also married long-term girlfriend Julia Carey in 2012 and now has two children. He continued to slim down throughout the next two years.
The Late Late Show
In March 2015, Corden moved to Los Angeles to take over the role as presenter of The Late Late Show, once in LA, Corden employed a personal trainer and cut out sugar and bread, and now only eats at mealtimes.
James now weighs around 14st, he is still overweight, but as been told to stay that way by doctors and the producers of The Late Late Show.
I hope that you’ve enjoyed reading this first blog, please do give suggestions for celebrities that you would like to see the story of.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎉
Cheers,
Rob 🙂
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