Ricky Gervais: 'I'm basically a fat guy and working out is killing me!' (VIDEO)

By Patrick McLennan
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Ricky Gervais has revealed his battle to stay fit and joke that he's 'a fat guy at heart'.

The Office and Derek star explained in an interview with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart that he face a neverending cycle of overeating, drinking and rowking out.

Ricky said: "I worked out and I lost a little bit of weight, but I'm basically a fat guy at heart and it's killing me. Trying to keep fit is literally killing me.

"I don't want to give anything up so I still eat pizza and I get drunk every night and then I have to go for a run in the morning, like Rocky, and it kills me."

Ricky appears on The Daily Show on Comedy Central Extra on June 5 at 12.45am.

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Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.