Fitter pill for Al
After putting on three stone during lockdown, Alan Carr plans to sample the latest weight-loss wonder drug.
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Scientists have heralded semaglutide as a “game changer” after trials saw some people lose more than a fifth of their body weight.
And comic Alan wants to be first in line to sample its benefits after it debuted on the market last year.
“I’ve been on so many diets, like that woman,” he complains, comparing
Gary Barlow
has revealed that as a kid he dodged fights with rival schools to protect his pianoplaying hands. Writing to his younger self for website Why Now, he says: “It’s OK to not fit in.” It worked out for the pacifist pianist. He should teach it in schools. himself to the diet-pill obsessed mother in Requiem for a Dream. “I can’t wait for that pill.”
Alan, 44, previously admitted he “ballooned” during lockdown. “I have been eating any old s***,” he said. “I think I have put on about three stone.
“You see skinny people on Instagram and they only have a slice of banana bread but I was eating the whole lot.”
Interior Design Masters host Alan attempted to lose weight by embarking on a 1,000calorie-a-day diet, after being inspired by pal Adele’s 7st weight loss, but said his diet was “absolute rubbish”.
He chatted to Bake Off host Tom Allen on today’s episode of his podcast Life’s a Beach about the new drug.
Researcher Prof Rachel Batterham, said of semaglutide, which can be used to treat Type 2 diabetes: “This is a game-changer in the amount of weight loss it causes.”
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A FRIEND of Harry Dunn’s alleged killer Anne Sacoolas says the spy’s husband was also at the crash scene.
In jumping to the American mum’s defence, the pal revealed information about the accident that claimed the life of 19-year-old motorcyclist Harry.
It raises questions about what actions Mrs Sacoolas, 43, and husband Jonathan, 45, took after the crash near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019.
And it may form a crucial part of what lawyers for Harry’s parents Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, who have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the couple in the US, would ask them about.
Mrs Sacoolas’ friend Gail Hunter, 69, said she could “no longer remain silent”. The pal also condemned the emergency services for “delays” after the accident. Writing a letter to her local paper in America, she said: “The record needs to be set straight with the facts.
“Anne was involved in an automobile accident while exiting the... base in the UK with her two young children.
“She had been living in the country for about a month and pulled out on to the wrong side of the road.
“The claim that Anne left the scene is patently false.
“She did everything she could to help Harry Dunn, stopping a motorist to call for help and calling the Air Force Base herself.”
She added: “Anne was at the scene of the accident, as was her husband, when the ambulance arrived 42 minutes later – an appalling delay in medical
care compounded by another hour delay before he was admitted to the hospital where he later died – and remained at the scene until officials told her to leave.”
This is the first time anyone has said Mr Sacoolas, also a US spy, was there too.
It is not thought he witnessed the crash but was called to the scene by his wife. The base, which is near the village of Charlton where Harry lived, is a US Air Force communications station.
Because of her husband’s role, Mrs Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity.
A deal was put in place in 1994 between the UK and the US, giving diplomatic immunity to staff at RAF Croughton and their families. Northamptonshire police were planning to get Mrs Sacoolas to sign
a document to waive immunity, but she and her family fled back to the US on a private jet weeks after the crash.
Ms Hunter, from Mrs Sacoolas’ hometown of Aiken in South Carolina, added: “Anne and her children will live with this tragedy for the rest of their lives.
“While I grieve for Harry Dunn, I also grieve for Anne with the harassment, threats and hate she has suffered.
“What happened here was not criminal act, it was a tragic accident.”
She hit out in response to anger in the city over Mrs Sacoolas’s refusal to return to the UK to face justice.
After Mrs Sacoolas fled Britain, she was charged here with causing death by dangerous driving.
But an initial extradition request submitted by the Home Office was rejected by the US in January last year. a
I grieve for Harry. I also grieve for Anne over the hate she has suffered
GAIL HUNTER IN LETTER DEFENDING HER FRIEND