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Privacy NoticeCelebrity Gogglebox star Shaun Ryder has opened up about using Ozempic after gaining weight over lockdown, revealing that he “ballooned up to 15 stone” due to his long-standing health condition. The Happy Mondays star has entrusted best mate Bez with planning his theoretical funeral for Channel 4’s new show Celebrity Send Off, where famous duos plan each other’s services. Shaun, 62, opened up to OK! about his health in an exclusive chat and said that he has been taking Ozempic – a medicine used to treat diabetes and for weight management – over the last few years. “It was so hard to get off what I put on in lockdown. I ballooned up to 15st and just couldn’t get rid of it, even with cycling,” he said. “I got on Ozempic and it’s great!”
Shaun Ryder and Bez on Celebrity Gogglebox together
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He added that he finds it hard to lose weight due to suffering with an underactive thyroid, which can cause weight gain, tiredness, memory issues and other symptoms due to the thyroid gland failing to produce enough hormones. “If I stop taking it, I’ll probably put it on again. I don’t eat that much anyway but because I’ve got an underactive thyroid, it makes you blow up. I’ve got no side effects and I don’t know anyone who gets them – and there are loads of people I know who are on it now,” he said. Is it big in the celebrity world? “I think so – but I’m not going to start naming names!” he laughed. Shaun had previously opened up about using Ozempic last year, admitting that he had lost two stone. “I think I was 16 stone and now I’m down to 14 because of them jabs you stick in your belly, that they say the Kardashians are on? Ozempic. I’ve been on them and I’ve lost two stone,” he said in an interview.
Shaun Ryder returned to I’m A Celebrity for the All Stars series last year
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He admitted that taking part in I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here’s all-stars series made him realise that he needed to handle his help. He told OK!: “The first time I did it in 2010, I didn’t want to come home. I would have stayed in the jungle like some Vietnam veteran. “I did it again 12 years later but my hips and everything in my back had gone. I was a bit wounded. When you’ve got a false hip and you’ve got to get in a hammock, it’s not really good.” He is now a staple on our TVs thanks to Celebrity Gogglebox, which he appears on with his friend and fellow Happy Mondays bandmember Bez. The pair film the show in his Salford home, with Bez driving up from his house in Wales every week to film. “But he’s usually coming from somewhere else anyway because he is out every night DJing and he loves it,” Shaun said. “He is an unbelievable geezer. I’ve told him he has to calm down or he will drop dead one day.” Celebrity Send Off will be available to stream from Thursday 1st August on Channel 4.Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnGogglebox
