Comic diets for diabetes doc

The comic and former GP is one of the celebrities dieting for Diabetes: The Fast Fix, an ITV documentary airing in May.

The show is hoping to establish whether blood sugar is better controlled by losing weight – and Sinha reckons that his body is an excellent control for the experiment.

'Every year I go on diets, I go on binges, I go on diets, I go on binges. But January 1, it's a constant in my life, [I'm always] 13 stone 11 or 13 stone 12,' he told Stuart Maconie on his BBC 6 radio show.

'I'm grateful that my body's always behaved itself. When I've misbehaved, the weight's always gone up, when I've behaved well, the weight goes down.

'So it's up to me, I've got no excuses, I've not got a fast metabolism or slow metabolism or weak bones or anything like that. My body responds to the respect that I give it.'

Tweeting his progress this week, he revealed: 'I've lost a stone in weight. If I lose another I have a shout of getting an invite to a gay awards night.'

Published: 15 Mar 2018