Before and weight loss
WHEN Rebel Wilson presented an award at the Baftas two years ago, her performance impressed bosses so much that they invited her back to host the entire ceremony.
But when the Australian comedian turned actress returns for tonight’s glitzy show, she will do so minus a staggering five-and-a-half stone.
Photographed last Wednesday wearing a gown from Kim Kardashian’s favourite label, Thierry Mugler, she looked half the woman she was when she presented the award for best director to Sam Mendes in 2020.
After arriving in London from the US last week, the star was taken for a walk around London’s Royal Albert Hall where at tonight’s ceremony she promises to tell the ‘filthiest, cheekiest jokes’ in a bid to ‘push the limits’.
Ms Wilson, star of the 2011 movie Bridesmaids and the comedy trilogy Pitch Perfect, says that she lost the weight by walking. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that she has also recruited an impressive glam squad to get her ready for the show. Her team includes Beyonce’s stylist, Jennifer Rodriguez, as well as Elizabeth
Stewart, a Hollywood fashion expert who is used to dressing the likes of Julia Roberts and Cate Blanchett.
Ms Wilson has also hired British make-up artist Karin Darnell, who has worked with the Spice Girls, while her tresses will be tended to by hairdresser Mikey Kardashian whose clients have included Adele.
Speaking of her weight loss, which started shortly after the awards in February 2020, Ms Wilson, 41, said: ‘I lost weight but very, very gradually. Sometimes I kicked up things a notch with some workouts and went hard, but the majority of the work for the year was just doing things like walking for an hour.’
At the 2020 ceremony she made a joke at the expense of Princes Andrew and Harry, with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in the audience. She said: ‘It is really great to be here, at the Royal Andrew... Royal Harry... no, sorry, Royal Philah at this royal... palace place.’
Ms Wilson is the only non-British host of the Bafta film awards other than Icelandic-born Magnus Magnusson, who did the honours in 1990.
Star promises the ‘filthiest, cheekiest’ jokes tonight