Christopher Biggins opened up about the truth behind his jaw-dropping weight loss live on TV.

The 76-year-old appeared on GB News earlier this week to chat to hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ellie Costello on their breakfast show.

The presenters, Christopher and journalist Dawn Neesom, 60, got talking about some the latest headlines during Monday’s episode, which included the news that the weight loss jabs could reduce risk of cancer. 

Christopher gave his opinion on the medicine and admitted that he has taken it himself – and it has had a positive impact on him.

He said: ‘I’m on a weight loss jab and it’s great, it’s really good. Unfortunately, it cuts your appeтιтe enormously. 

‘Last night, for instance, Neil (Sinclair) and I were heading out to the awards and watched them on television. 

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The 76-year-old, pictured back in 2010, gave his opinion on the medicine and admitted that he has taken it himself – and it has had a positive impact on him

‘We decided to have some Chicken Kyiv, we shared one, and I only ate a quarter of that.  

‘Neil said: “Why didn’t you eat?” and I said “because of this drug,” it works brilliantly and I have lost quite a lot of weight.’

He added: ‘It’s good, and if it does help with cancer, that is fantastic.’

Eamonn chimed in: ‘Another benefit a lot of people will say is, of course, you hear the scare stories all the time, but the long and short if it is, you find yourself feeling that “I am healthier because I’m lighter, I’m not puffing and wheezing”.’

The star admitted that due to his weight loss he has been able to walk better, two years after having knee surgery.

He also eats a lot less, although there are downsides.

Ellie pointed out: ‘There’s joy in eating as well, isn’t there?’

Christopher admitted: ‘There’s a lot of joy in eating, it is one of the wonderful things ever, to sit down and have a good meal.

Christopher, pictured in January 2025, confessed: ‘I find that, funnily enough, as I’m getting older, I’ve gone off steak. I find it too much’

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However, his next comment ruffled feathers, even prompting a gasp from Eamonn.

‘I find that, funnily enough, as I’m getting older, I’ve gone off steak. 

‘I find it too much.’

Christopher isn’t the only celebrity who has decided to take Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro.

It comes after Nicola McClean bravely opened up about her ongoing eating disorder and admitted that she was weighing herself after everything that she consumed at rock bottom. 

The former glamour model, 43, appeared on the most recent episode of Vanessa Feltz’s Channel 5 show Vanessa, and they got chatting about the topic of weight. 

Vanessa, 63, asked Nicola: ‘Have you ever had an issue with weight?’

Nicola said: ‘Yeah so I am a recovering anorexic. I’ll be honest, I still do suffer with bulimia. 

‘It’s very managed at the minute, but it’s one of the ones I can’t kick it, if I’m really honest.’ 

Bulimia (bulimia nervosa) is an eating disorder and serious mental health condition. It can affect anyone and treatment may take time, but you can recover from it. 

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The former glamour model, 43, appeared on the most recent episode of Vanessa Feltz ‘s Channel 5 show Vanessa, and they got chatting about the topic of weight 

The star (pictured in 2022) admitted: ‘The anorexia, I went down to under six stone when I had my second child. I wasn’t eating anything, I’d weigh myself even after having water’

According to Beat Eating Disorders, Anorexia is: ‘A serious mental illness where a person restricts their food intake, which often causes them to be severely underweight.’

She continued: ‘The anorexia, I went down to under six stone when I had my second child. I wasn’t eating anything, I’d weigh myself even after having water.  

‘I’d throw everything up that I did consume, even water. I ended up in a really bad way. 

‘As I say, the bulimia, I think it’s an OCD as well, it’s like when things get stressful in my life, it’s my go to.’

Vanessa was keen to know what her view on weight loss jabs are after medicine such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro have become a popular tool for people in recent months to shed some pounds.

Nicola explained: ‘What I think about them is that I think that they are fantastic, obviously you’re proof that they are and if they are done well and done correctly, they are so good.’

However the star has highlighted how dangerous they can be, after she managed to get hold of some herself on social media.  

‘But I managed to get one over Instagram and I was doing it.

‘For someone obviously, who has a mental health illness with eating disorders, it’s absolutely the wrong thing for me to be doing. 

Nicola explained: ‘I’d throw everything up that I did consume, even water. I ended up in a really bad way. As I say, the bulimia, I think it’s an OCD as well, it’s like when things get stressful in my life, it’s my go to’

Nicola pictured back in 2004 confessed that she did get hold of weight loss jabs – but they made her unwell and her husband threw them away

‘I should never have been given it. I lied to get it. 

‘But I should never have been given it, so I feel like if it’s more readily available on the NHS, we can stop going down the dark route of getting them. 

‘If I’d have gone to my GP and said I feel like I need them. They would have maybe been able to say Nicola where are you at the minute with your eating disorder?’

WHAT IS BULIMIA? 

Bulimia (bulimia nervosa) is an eating disorder and serious mental health condition. It can affect anyone and treatment may take time, but you can recover from it.

The main signs of bulimia are:

Purging may include making yourself sick (vomiting), taking laxative or diuretic medicines, avoiding eating for long periods of time, exercising excessively, or a combination of these.

The main treatments are: 

Talking therapies, medicines (such as antidepressants, if you have another mental health condition) and support from a nutrition specialist 

Source: NHS

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Vanessa replied: ‘They would. If you went to a GP and said “let’s measure your BMI, you’re not eligible for it I’m afraid.” 

‘And you wouldn’t have been able to get it.’  

Guest Anthea Turner asked: ‘Why didn’t you? What stopped you going to your doctor?’ 

Nicola replied: ‘Because I knew I wouldn’t get one. 

‘I knew I wouldn’t get one.  

‘I wanted one and un fortunately with any active addiction, you will manipulate to get what you want.’

Vanessa asked: ‘Tell me something,  when you were actually taking the jabs, did you feel that the food noise went away?’ 

Nicola confessed: ‘Yeah. That is one thing.

‘I think even my husband, who has been really great over my eating disorder, he understands the food noise.

‘He doesn’t have it, but he understands it.

‘When I have, I’ve also had slimming pills from the black market, I’ve done everything that you could possibly done to lose weight.

‘When you get that disconnect and to stop thinking about food…

‘It’s so nice. It’s so nice.

‘So to be able to have that for a month was amazing but I was very sick, my husband ended up throwing it in the bin, he was like this is no good for you.

‘But the food noise, when you don’t have that, it’s so freeing.’