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Bake Off star Matt Lucas reveals heartbreaking family reason he lost weight

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A DRASTICALLY slimmed-down Matt Lucas had Great British Bake Off viewers concerned for his health this week – but he insists he lost the weight precisely because he didn’t want to die young.

The Little Britain funnyman, who is back fronting the new series of the cookery favourite, has gone from size XXXL to a medium, simply by eating less and walking more.

Matt, 48, reveals he went on a health kick because he didn’t want to suffer the same fate as his father and grandfather — who both died from heart attacks in their fifties.

He said: “My dad died when he was 52, very suddenly. His dad died, I think at 56, so I was looking at the law of averages. “I was very big and I was getting bigger in the pandemic.

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