Michael McIntyre reveals odd phobia he developed after attending £4k-a-week weight loss clinic

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Michael McIntyre left a weight-loss clinic based in Austria with a fear of apples, bizarrely. In a new interview with The Sun, the 47-year-old comedian recalled checking into the £4k per night establishment for one week in total, where he managed to shed two stone. "I went to this place called the Mayr Clinic and lost quite a bit of weight, which I kept off for a little while.

It was a week of pain and they did all these tests on me, put little probes on the end of my tongue and told me I shouldn't eat apples," said McIntyre, who currently hosts Michael McIntyre's Big Show for the BBC and was once a season-long judge on Britain's Got Talent. "Apparently apples will make me very lethargic and confused in my brain.

It's the only thing I've taken from it, really." Michael went on to elaborate: "I mean, I've put all the weight back on but I've got this real fear of apples, which are actually really good for you.

But the problem is my wife doesn't like me losing weight. It would be a hell of a lot easier to stay thin if she was quite rude to me about my weight but it's that annoying thing of she just loves me." Michael and his aromatherapist wife Kitty McIntyre share two sons together, Lucas and Oscar, having married back in 2003.