Peter Kay acknowledged his recent dramatic weight loss during a rare television appearance.
The comedian, 52, previously admitted to struggling with binge-eating and had tried “everything” to shed the pounds.
He looked significantly slimmer during an appearance on The One Show on Thursday while promoting his 2026 Peter Kay Live, Better Late Than Never tour.
Fans declared that he looked totally unrecognisable, with one even joking on social media: “Who shrunk Peter Kay?”
The stand-up comic addressed his new look during an appearance on Good Morning Britain with hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shepard.
The camera flashed up a photo of Kay looking heavier on the cover of his 2026 tour poster as he discussed the upcoming shows.
“Oh, here we go!” Kay remarked as he looked at the image, before quipping: “Lost some weight since that happened.”
He went on to explain that all profits from the tour will go to twelve cancer charities.
The comic is finishing his years-long Better Late Than Never tour with arena shows in Newcastle, Nottingham, Glasgow, Dublin, Birmingham, Belfast, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester and London.
The charities benefitting are Children With Cancer UK, Teenage Cancer Trust, Kidney Cancer UK, Blood Cancer UK, Bowel Cancer UK, Prostate Cancer UK, DKMS UK, Ovarian Cancer Action, Pancreatic Cancer UK, Anthony Nolan, The Brain Tumour Charity and Breast Cancer UK.
Kay recently revealed he has been trying “for the first 48 years of his life” to lose weight but lacks the “willpower”.
“Yeah I had to, eventually, because you start thinking about your health and things like that, don’t you?” he said at an event with Sara Cox in Salford, per The Sun.
“I tried everything. Good God in heaven. I mean, you go to flaming weight-loss groups and stuff like that. I joined Slimming World and WeightWatchers. I did all of them.”
He went on: “I was doing really well with this diet, but I’m so bad with willpower. I had this hotdog and I caught a glimpse of myself reflected in, ironically, a framed poster for Babe.
“I thought, look at you - what are you doing? You’re doing really well on this diet, you should be ashamed of yourself.
“And I got it and threw it in the bin - and just as it was about to hit the binliner, I grabbed it and still ate it.”
He went on to explain that his bad eating habits dated back to when he was a child.
“Even when I was in my pram, apparently my mum used to get a meat pie from the market hall and put it on my knee, and I’d be there eating it,” he said.
He added that his mother would bring pies into his primary school for him to eat, recalling: “Everyone would be queueing up and the dinner ladies would be like, ‘Your mum’s been in with a pie.’”
“She used to hide the biscuits in our house, but I knew where she’d hid them.
“I used to have me mates round for a brew and I’d reach inside the tumble drier and get a packet of digestives out, like it was normal.”
Kay revealed he started doing aerobics at his local leisure centre, where Paddy McGuinness was a fitness instructor and gave him classes.
He famously stepped back from the spotlight in 2017 after cancelling a planned tour due to “unforeseen family circumstances.”
He returned in August 2021 for two charity shows and in 2022 announced his first arena tour in 12 years.
His Better Late Than Never tour, which included a record-breaking monthly residency at London’s 02 Arena running from December 2024 to July 2025, continues until April 2026.
