Nick Knowles shares weight loss update after fans call him 'unrecognisable'
The DIY SOS star said he has lost around two and a half stone
Watch Nick Knowles share weight loss update after fans call him 'unrecognisable'
What did you miss?
Nick Knowles says he has lost over two stone after surprising fans with his new look.
Earlier this year the DIY SOS star sparked a flurry of comments on social media when he appeared on The One Show looking very different, having gained some weight and grown a full bushy beard. Viewers said he looked "unrecognisable", with one asking on X: "What’s happened to Nick Knowles?"
The star has shared that he put on some extra pounds during lockdown. During an appearance on ITV's This Morning on Wednesday, he said he has now slimmed down. The star was talking to hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley about his latest travel show, Nick Knowles In South America, and was explaining that he had tried rock climbing.
What, how and why?
Shephard said: "I wouldn’t see you as necessarily a mountain goat when it comes to rock climbing Nick. Not necessarily as agile as you need to be..."
Laughing, Knowles replied: "No, I am 61 and you will have noticed, the newspapers, they pointed out, I put on a lot of weight during lockdown. I have lost about two and a half stone of it, I have got another stone to go."
He went on: "But yeah, there is no doubt… I was up this mountain, I was up this rock face having climbed up. And I don’t like heights anyway.
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"I am vibrating and shaking and I’m on a billet line to the guy who is holding me on the mountain. Only I’m 18 and a half stone and he is about nine stone!"
Knowles said he thought that if he took a tumble it would be "like a cartoon." "If I fell off, I'd pass him on the way down!" he exclaimed, as the presenters giggled.
The TV star has previously said that he piled on the pounds during the coronavirus lockdowns. In 2021 he told the Mirror: "I’ve made a living by looking like a bag of spanners on TV. I’m 18 stone, I’m massive. I’m always on building sites. During lockdown I put on almost four stone."
Nick Knowles also talked about wedding plans
During his interview on This Morning, Knowles also talked about his wedding plans with girlfriend Katie Dadzie, who has been with for around three years. The pair are engaged but have yet to walk down the aisle together, but the star explained it was because they were so busy it was hard pinning down a day.
"Finding the date is becoming difficult," he explained. "We are sort of getting to the point now where we are like, 'Do you know what? We just might disappear (and do it)'."
