Actor and comedian Ricky Gervais has admitted old age has caught up with him – explaining that since hitting 60, he suffers from aches and pains doing exercise, even after performing stand-up gigs on stage.
Ricky confessed: “I’m older now – you can’t do the things you used to. Even tennis now. I play tennis every week and I can’t walk for 24 hours afterwards.
“I wake up and it feels like I’ve been in a car crash! I’m doing warm-ups for gigs and you don’t notice it. If I do two in a row, again, it’s like, ‘What have I done?’”
He went on: “The adrenalin means you don’t notice at the time, it’s just like everything has a bigger effect.”
The Office star told the Making Sense podcast that he is also coping with piling on weight and injuries.
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He groaned: “Now I’ve got shin splints in one shin and I’ve just got to stop running.
“But I don’t stop doing it, that’s the thing I think – I don’t stop doing what’s bad for me because why should I?
“Just because I can’t walk the next day that’s no reason not to play tennis the day before! So just getting worse and worse really.
“Also you get heavier as well, you just creep up. I’ve just stopped weighing myself because every month I used to put on a pound.
“I don’t know if it’s metabolism or you work out less because it aches.
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“That’s another thing, you’re not as strong and you ache more because your tendons are not as good.”
The funnyman added: “If I do squats now I think, ‘I’m not going to be able to get up after this.’
“You lose your nerve as well. I don’t know why it happens it just does – you just feel weaker.
“And I’d say it’s been in the last two years. I felt amazing at 58 but 60 is like, ‘No, that’s it now’.”
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It comes after it emerged that Ricky offered his Extras co-star Les Dennis, 68, a bum double for iconic scenes – with Les admitting: “I got the call from Ricky and he said, ‘Will you come in and meet me and Stephen Merchant? We’re doing this show.
“We’re interested in you playing a twisted, demented version of yourself’.
“As I was walking out they went, ‘Oh, we didn’t mention the a**e scene? You’re going to be in the dressing room’.
“And I went, ‘Oh yeah, fine’. They asked, ‘Do you want an a**e double?’
“And I went, ‘No, you won’t get one as bad! I’ll do it myself.”
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