It may make some time, but you’ll get there in the end’.“I was completely dumbstruck. I was quite lucky in regards to the calcium test but my doctor said I produce too much cholesterol.
Of course it’s a concern.“Every couple of years I go and have a full medical at the Loughton Cardiac Clinic (in Essex).“I go on the treadmill, and then I have a carotid artery test which is a total game-changer.“People don’t normally have them because, on the NHS, you don’t really get them unless you’ve had a “But they basically tell you how much furring you’ve got in the artery which is in your neck and it’s a very accurate predictor of whether you’ll then have furring in your heart.“I also had a calcium test for my heart and that came back at zero which is good, but I also have hereditary high cholesterol through my mum, Margaret.“I’m not on statins but what my heart guy said was, ‘Look, Brad, if you start training, all that (cholesterol) will drop. I got on the scales and saw I’d hit 14st 9lbs, the heaviest I’ve ever been. I’d just done the Royal Variety Show performance which helped launch my career, but my dad died from heart failure two weeks after that and never got to see it.“Once you know it’s hereditary, you start having regular tests. But I’ve said it now.”After leaving school aged 16, and retiring from football with an injury two years later, the Arsenal fan started working the gruelling comedy circuit before getting his big break in 1994 with a presenting stint on the National Lottery.In 2004 he became a household name after landing the part of chancer Danny Baldwin — named after his late dad — in Corrie.After quitting the soap two years later, he went on to become host of cult daytime quiz The Chase (“My favourite Chaser? Looking for something to watch? So, touch wood, I will be OK.”Too much cholesterol in the blood causes a process called atherosclerosis which builds up fatty deposits in the artery walls — a potentially fatal form of heart disease.The arteries become narrowed and blood flow to the heart muscle is slowed down or blocked.Inherited cholesterol makes it harder for the body to remove LDL — or “bad” — cholesterol from the blood, and drastically increases the risk of heart attack or a stroke.Around nine in ten people with it have not been diagnosed — meaning early testing is crucial.Bradley adds: “I’ve done a couple of bits for the Heart Foundation, and I would encourage everyone to get tested.“People can look really healthy on the outside and on the inside, you don’t know what’s going on. OK. What about the jungle . "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. More than half of it is down to your DNA, down to hereditary factors, so the day after my birthday on June 4, I started watching what I eat. Bradley Walsh, Director: Northern Rescue.
I was having an orange juice and he was about 6ft 2in with coiffured hair, wearing a black polo neck, a medallion around his neck and a purple velvet jacket. I’ve never told anyone this before because I didn’t want them thinking, ‘God he’s mad, he’s off his rocker’.
It’s a silent killer.“And this was literally just prior to lockdown. .
I first met him, hammered (me, not Bradley) at a Brits party three years ago, when he patiently escorted me to the exit after I snapped a high heel and had to be half-dragged across the dance floor.Today, when our interview overruns by 20 minutes, and he’s prompted by his publicist to wrap things up, he insists we keep going.Most celebs can’t hang up quick enough (Although, arguably, this says more about me than them).But, still on the subject of hearts, Brad, a patron of the brilliant Make A Wish Foundation helping critically ill kids, lets slip an unusual encounter with the afterlife. I really was quite big.“I thought, ‘Oh crikey, I’m gonna be bang in trouble here if I don’t lose the weight and start dealing with this’. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. So if, like Bradley, staying alive means eating fewer doughnuts, and getting in a few more miles, we should all, well, step to it. You need to get fit’.“I was a time bomb. Actor, singer, comedian, presenter . Bradley Walsh Bradley Walsh Biography. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services.BRADLEY Walsh was warned by doctors he would die if he did not lose weight immediately in a major heart scare.After turning 60 last month, and the dire warning from his cardiologist, The Chase host has totally quit booze and given up carbs.He told The Sun on Sunday: “I had a hang-up because my father, Daniel, died at the age of 59.“I had it in the back of my mind that I just had to get past my dad’s age.
It’s a faff and often deeply personal and highly embarrassing.But so is having a heart attack in the pub.
He completed the four year program and went on to form his own production company Projektor Images and Sounds.
He is also a former professional footballer before he decided to quit due to an ankle injury and focus on other things at age 22.