Paul O’Grady, 64, believes he has coronavirus, he has revealed in an interview.
Speaking on BBC Radio 2, the TV legend told pal and fellow broadcaster Gaby Roslin how he has been battling a bad flu.
The star said: “I’m alright now.
“Last week I had flu like symptoms. I didn’t have the cough bad, I certainly didn’t have the temperature or anything like that so I just got on with it.
“That was when the heating had gone so it was minus two down here and freezing and I thought someone had got it in for me. I’m fine now.”
Insisting he believes it was coronavirus, Paul added: “Most definitely.
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“That’s knocking about, but there’s also flus and seasonal colds going about so you’ve got to tell yourself and learn the difference.
“The coronavirus – you’d know if you caught that. I lay on the couch with the fire on and the dogs on top of me moaning.
“When you are lying on the couch dying or you think you are.
“It was sheer exhaustion like Chris Evans had too.”
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In a bid to help get himself on the mend, Paul says he took advice from the plague which took hold of France in the 1600s.
Paul explained: “There’s a concoction – four thieves vinegar – and I made it up.
“In France during the plague in the 1600s four thieves were going around and they were knocking off everybody’s houses and robbing the dead so when they were finally sentenced to be burned at the stake the magistrate said ‘if you tell us how you’ve managed to survive not getting the plague I’ll lower the sentence to hanging’, which was big of him.
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“Basically this is the recipe which is cider vinegar with as many cloves of garlic in it as you can take and four different kinds of herbs to represent the four thieves.
“I’ve got a bit of rosemary, parsley, and lemon grass, and bay leaf and leave it to steep and just have a tiny little bit every day. I’m having it at the moment, oh God yeah.”
.At the time of publication there are 60,733 cases of coronavirus across the UK.
Sadly 7,984 people have died with the disease.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
