Nick Knowles reveals he got wedged in Grand Canyon after 4st weight gain during lockdown

Nick Knowles has revealed he got stuck in the Grand Canyon while making his new TV show after putting on four stone during lockdown.

The presenter, 60, who previously revealed his weight crept up to 18st during the pandemic, got jammed in a crevice while filming Channel 5‘s The Grand Canyon.

Speaking on Radio X, Nick told how much of the system around the caves is built for ‘skinny people’.

He said: ‘You have to go through ‘horizontal chimneys’ which are for real cavers, who are like whippets — they’re tiny, skinny people.

‘But my director was like, “Go through here, and there’s a cave on the other side which we can talk in.”

Candid: Nick Knowles has revealed he got stuck in the Grand Canyon while making his new TV show after putting on four stone during lockdown

Health: The presenter, 60, who previously revealed his weight crept up to 18st during the pandemic, got jammed in a crevice while filming Channel 5’s The Grand Canyon (pictured in 2020)

Nick recalled how he began to panic after he got wedged and was unable to move his shoulders.

He said: ‘But half way along, I was like, “I can’t do this, this is just too much”. I had palpitations, it was seriously terrifying.

‘There was a point where I was wedged, I couldn’t get my shoulders through and I was wedged. My heart started to go and I was, “Breath, breath, breath”.’

‘The caver said to me, “So how are you feeling about your life choices?” ‘

Nick previously told how his weight crept up to 18 stone after he quit his fitness training and ate ‘all the pies’, with the star describing himself as ‘massive’. 

The TV personality explained how in the first UK lockdown, which started in March 2020, he stopped fitness training while he focused on writing.

Nick was cruelly trolled when he donned a wetsuit for the DIY SOS Children In Need Special.

When asked if the comments affected him, he said in an interview on BBC’s Morning Live: ‘No because the thing is I put on a lot of weight during the first lockdown.

Interview: Speaking on Radio X, Nick told how much of the system around the caves is built for ‘skinny people

He said: ‘My director was like, “Go through here, and there’s a cave on the other side which we can talk in”‘

Nick recalled how he began to panic after he got wedged and was unable to move his shoulders

He said: ‘But half way along, I was like, “I can’t do this, this is just too much”. I had palpitations, it was seriously terrifying’

‘I couldn’t do any training, I was doing a lot of writing, a lot of banana bread and I grew a big beard and stayed in and I wrote a lot.

‘So when I came to do the shoot I thought “I’ll tidy myself up” and then actually no because so many people, not everybody, did the Joe Wicks thing, not everyone spends half their life in the gym.

‘Some people put on a lot of weight and I thought do you know what, first start of the show, let’s start with that straight away.’ 

He added: ‘There was a point where I was wedged, I couldn’t get my shoulders through and I was wedged. My heart started to go and I was, “Breath, breath, breath”‘

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Body image: Nick previously told how his weight crept up to 18 stone after he quit his fitness training and ate ‘all the pies’, with the star describing himself as ‘massive’

Fitness: The TV personality explained how in the first UK lockdown, which started in March 2020, he stopped fitness training while he focused on writing