Strictly Come Dancing‘s Krishnan Guru-Murthy shuddered when Ranvir Singh urged him to demonstrate his weight reduction transformation live on camera.
On Thursday’s Lorraine, the Channel 4 newsreader, 53, originally hesitated to stand up and confess that his now-too-large suit jacket was held together by pins.
However, after wriggling and complaining, the journalist reluctantly agreed and even drew out his belt to indicate that the arduous preparations for the BBC ballroom programme had knocked him down seven notches.
‘Can I just say something,’ Ranvir, 46, began. Your jacket appears to be too big on you. Everything is pinned in the back.
‘Stand up Krishnan. I’ve got to show it.’
Krishan, who appeared on the ITV show with his dance partner Lauren Oakley, rejected down the invitation while laughing his head off before springing up to remove his jacket.
Still shocked, Ranvir continued: ‘What has happened to your body?!’
‘Oh dear, you weren’t supposed to see that,’ he joked.
Krishnan leaned back and pulled out his belt, which was now far too long, joking that he was holding onto it to chart his development.
Ranvir then presented before and after images of Krishnan, which he joked was a ‘little cruel’ because the weight reduction was ‘excellent’ for his health.
The broadcaster had previously raised fears about ‘falling dead’ on the dance floor as a result of ‘different health conditions.’
Krishnan stated that he had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and must be ‘wary’ of his heartbeat growing to a specific threshold, the ‘last 15%’ in the’red zone’.
What is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
The NHS explains that cardiomyopathy is ‘a general term for diseases of the heart muscle, where the walls of the heart chambers have become stretched, thickened or stiff. This affects the heart’s ability to pump blood around the body’.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which Krishnan has, is a condition where a patient’s heart muscle cells enlarge and the walls of the heart chambers thicken.
The heart chambers cannot hold as much blood, because they are reduced in size, and ‘the walls cannot relax properly and may stiffen’.
‘Also, the flow of blood through the heart may be obstructed,’ the national health service outlines.
While the NHS stresses that most people who have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy don’t have symptoms and don’t need treatment, it is ‘the most common cause of sudden unexpected death in childhood and in young athletes’.
The TV celebrity appeared on Lorraine after receiving letters of support from not one, but two A-list celebrities.
In a video clip, Bono and The Edge of U2 wished Krishnan and Lauren success, followed by Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger.
When he isn’t stealing celebrities’ hearts, Krishnan stated that he spends a lot of time emailing his Strictly co-stars through a WhatsApp group.
‘We come together on a Friday, but we’re all in touch during the week because we’ve got a WhatsApp group,’ he explained.
‘As soon as someone is having a bad moment, they’ll go on the group and say, “I’m having a terrible day” and everyone else will pile in with their own experiences and advice, or Angela Rippon will tell you about her cryotherapy chamber,’ he joked.
In a recent interview, Krishnan said that his wife feared he’might not have been happy for 35 years’ before signing up for Strictly.
He later doubled down on his comments and said: ‘It wasn’t a joke, to be honest. It’s been a genuinely profound experience.’
The broadcaster then went on to explain the magnitude with which Strictly has changed him as he said it was ‘about realising that you need something that you love in life’.
‘It’s quite easy at my age… You hit middle age and quite a lot of your life is about other people, it’s about work, it’s about your kids, and you don’t necessarily do stuff that you love,’ he said.
Lorraine airs weekdays from 9am on ITV.
