Paul Whitehouse “looked after” Bob Mortimer during his health crisis.
The 65-year-old comedian – who presents ‘Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing’ with his TV pal, 66 – had been left unable to walk due to a six-month battle with shingles in his muscles, and has now praised his co-star for all of the support he gave him during the making of the upcoming seventh series of the BBC programme.
He told the Daily Mirror: “I wasn’t very well and it made it a bit of a struggle but, as always, Paul looked after me and pulled me through.
“For half of the season, I couldn’t walk so it was very challenging at times. When we were in Trent, I was being taken from a wheelchair to the top of the bank. You never see that but you never see me on my feet either.”
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Despite his struggles, Bob insisted he was getting better, and was “reasonably sprightly” by the end of the series.
He said: “I just tried to get some muscle back, or get some to grow a bit stronger. I’m 80 per cent back and, by the end of the series, I was reasonably sprightly.”
Looking at the series itself – which returns on Sunday (29.09.24) at 9pm on BBC2 – the ‘Taskmaster’ star teased that “the first two episodes are the greatest of ‘Gone Fishing’ that have ever been made”.
He said: “I think they’re magnificent.
“Paul and I are just getting better and better at it, which sounds boastful. I think we know what the show is now and what people like. I love this series.”
Just like in previous series, the ‘Would I Lie To You?’ star oversees the food and accommodation for the duo’s travels, and revealed his favourite meal from their recent expedition was some hotdogs in a flask that the pair had in Norfolk.
He said: “It’s a lovely and nostalgic thing two old men having hotdogs by the lake. They were absolutely delicious. It was a genius idea.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
