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Good evening. I Matt Baker. I am Alex Jones. On tonight's programme: | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Diminutive One Show wildlife photographer mistaken for lunch by | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
a big bird. The nation's podgy pets are put on a diet. Finally, news | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
reading at night of the round subjected to a dodgy One Show | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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impersonation. -- night of the Brilliant! We have to say thank you | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
for being such a big sport, so Trevor McDonald! When you hear the | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
bongs, do you automatically go into newsreader mode? I am getting over | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
it slowly! If I bet you don't stop feeling that bars. In Australia, I | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
heard a similar piece of music and I was frightened. I thought I was | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
in the wrong place and that was terrifying. If we have uncovered a | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
remarkable photograph of your good self. If you do this on Thursday, | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
you could get into trouble. What is going on here? Can you remember? | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
What is that? It is you with a hosepipe and a pair of shorts. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
know that was not during the hosepipe ban! I could get into | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
trouble. -- I hope that was not. that your gardening outfit? I am | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
not sure those shorts are allowed any more! This is a family show! | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
love that you have blanked that from your memory. I am doing it | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
even now! No more embarrassing photographs but we will be talking | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
to you about your new series later. Cases of super fit and healthy | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
people suffering heart problems have been highlighted in the news | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
recently. According to research, to match extreme exercise can damage | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
your heart. Iwan Thomas, Olympic medallist, was concerned for his | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
own well-being and went to find out more. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
The many, exercises done out of necessity rather than pleasure. For | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
these amateur athletes, they take taking fit to another level. -- | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
keeping fit. They are part of a growing number of people taking up | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
extreme endurance sports. I train six days a week, anywhere from two- | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
and-a-half hours a day to two sessions a day. We always tried to | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
be the time that we got previously. Sometimes I run to work, sometimes | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
I write and I am sometimes the first person in the swimming-pool | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
in the morning. As a professional athlete I always pushed myself to | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
my absolute limit and beyond that pain barrier in search of Peak | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Performance and health. Now I am concerned. New research suggests | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
that training too hard can do you more harm than good. Extreme | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
endurance exercise can cause irreversible damage to the heart. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
It is thought that repeated prolonged exercise can cause small | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
areas of damage which affect the way the heart functions. Professor | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
White from Liverpool John Moores University was one of the academics | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
involved in the study. We know that the heart is under strain during | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
exercise. One of my questions for these ultra endurance nutters, the | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
guys that do prolonged exercise over and again, I wonder if this | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
can be detrimental to the heart. We showed that six of the athletes, | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
half of the population that we tested, actually has this damage to | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
the heart. That worries me because as an athlete I was always taught | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
that I should train harder than everyone else and I would be | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
stronger, fitter, faster and better than them. After 10 years of | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
training so hard, have I damaged myself? The bottom line is that we | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
do not know. I should get myself tested to find out if a career of | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
training to excess has damaged my heart beyond repair. I will not be | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
alone. I will be joined by a local triathletes who has been competing | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
for over a decade in triathlon. have never thought whether my heart | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
is damaged. What affects am I doing to it for later years? This will be | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
interesting. We have both pushed ourselves for more than the average | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
person for 10 years. Could we have put our hearts and Rhys? A reason | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
why endurance exercise is problematic is that it puts stress | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
on the heart. It is a pumping very dramatically and the hormones are | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
rising. That is all problematic for the heart. This is what the blood | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
sounds like when it goes through the valves in the heart. Currently | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
the Government recommends that adults between the ages of 19 to 64 | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
should do two-and-a-half hours of moderate intensity exercise every | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
week. This sort of exercise Professor White is talking about is | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
on a different scale. Endurance exercise can take the heart rate to | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
an extremely high level when done over a prolonged period. The heart | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
is beating very fast, but also very forcibly, to overcome the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
increasing blood pressure that we get during exercise. It is during | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
this period of time that it is under the greatest stress. If there | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
is a problem with a heart, we are going to see it. I am properly | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
nervous. I think this test will be a complete eye-opener for me. | :05:42. | :05:51. | |
are going to stop now. Consultant cardiologist John specialises in | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
Sport and exercise medicine. He is worried about the increase in | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
middle-aged men undertaking endurance sports. Men over the age | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
of 35, at the, the scores of, and death is actually a heart attack. - | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
- the most common cause of premature death is actually a heart | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
attack. If you have high blood pressure, diabetes, if you smoke, | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
you should see the doctor to make sure that you are well enough to | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
take an event like that on. Critics of this research so that it was | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
such a small study that more long- term research will be necessary to | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
prove that damage to the heart can occur. The tests are over. Now the | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
results are in. Both of us will find out if years of exercise have | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
damaged our hearts. All the investigations are normal. You are | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
fit to continue training. Iwan Thomas. Right. The hard was | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
functioning beautifully and we did not see any problems on the ECG | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
tracing and no abnormal rhythms. In summary, OK. A few more years left! | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
Thank you. Is there such a thing as too much exercise? Should we really | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
be pushing ourselves to the limit when we want to get fit? Moderate | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
intensity and moderate Duration activity is beneficial for the | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
heart. We should be promoting physical activity, without a shadow | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
of a doubt. It is only at the extreme end of the spectrum that we | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
see dramatic changes. Dr Mark Porter is here to shed some | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
light on the subject for none -- non-Olympians. Should people be | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
worried? I don't think so. You could be worried if you are a couch | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
potato. Training will do you good. It is about moderate intensity and | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
moderate Duration. I would even include the London Marathon as long | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
as you prepare properly and do not try to beat the world record. It is | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
about intensity and not doing too much. You can monitor that using a | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
cardiac training range. Look on the internet for that. It basically | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
means taking your pulse rate and keeping it within a healthy rate. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
You can use a heart-rate monitor and gymnasiums have them attached | :08:09. | :08:19. | |
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to the machines. You should never go above your maximum ideal heart | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
rate for your age. If you are 40, that is about 120-150. Less than | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
that and it is wasting your time and any more is putting you over -- | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
under stress. And what else can you do? As you get fitter, you have to | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
push yourself harder, so it adapts with you. As we saw from that | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
photograph, you are really fit. Do you do much exercise? I must | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
confess that I occasionally go to the gym. I put it as likely as that. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
You know that funny thing, you never tell yourself that it is | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
wonderful to go, but having been, you come back feeling much better. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
And for some bizarre reason you feel a sense of virtue that you did | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
something that you think is good for you. On the way to the part in | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
the evening after playing tennis! Get the old endorphins pumping. | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
will be impressed with our wildlife photographer because Jamie Crawford | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
did some cardiovascular during office hours to capture the perfect | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
wildlife photograph. Keep those knees Up! | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
The chase of any predator as it hunts its prey is captivating to | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
watch. Some of the most exhilarating and difficult to | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
photograph of those in full flight. I went to counter the moment just | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
before it strikes its brave. The best way to do that is to make sure | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
that the play is made. -- make sure that the animal it is chasing his | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
me. I am going to allow myself to be hunted down by a killing machine. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
The peregrine falcon is built to strike at speed. Lloyd is going to | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
help me get that killer shot. He is a professional bird trainer. I | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
would really like to get that moment of impact when it is about | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
to grab what it is chasing. How on earth can I do that? You want it | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
coming right up the camera lens? Yes. How can we tempt her? I will | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
use this, which they are trained to chase. If I can hold this just | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
above your camera lens, and ultimately let her take it, you | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
will get that strike. Is it going to take my head off? You have to | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
make sure that she has a clear run over the top, somehow. I am not | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
sure that this is a good idea! Even without the risk of several talents | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
near my face, speed is the next problem. This bird will be hurtling | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
towards me at an estimated 60 mph. Getting a photograph in focus will | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
be tricky. Earlier on, to get my eye in, I set out to shoot | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
something that would move towards me at high speed. But in a | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
controlled manner. And ideally something that is not armed with | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
deadly talons. But photographing something that speed has its | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
problems. -- at speed. These tennis balls are travelling too fast for | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
the auto focus of my camera. I have manually focused to a couple of | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
metres in front of me. The good news is that the camera can shoot | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
eight frames a second which gives me a real chance of getting the | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
photograph that I want. These balls fly less than half the speed that | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
the peregrine falcon can reach. When they get faster, I need to | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
increase the depth of field. That means increasing the amount of the | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
picture that is sharp. I am trying to be as brave as possible without | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
getting hit. Practising is all very well, but ball's bounce. It is time | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
for the real thing. Peregrine falcons fly at high speed to catch | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
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their prey by surprise. And they Now you know what it is like to | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
have 60 mph or falcon coming at you. There are even tricks. We start | :12:46. | :12:55. | |
cutting it fine. That was my forehead! The problem is that he is | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
coming at such an angle and so fast that I cannot track him. I am only | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
getting half the bird. I am going to try and watch the bird with one | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
eye and the camera with the other. You can keep him in frame the whole | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
time by doing that and hopefully get the photograph that you want. | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
Better, but still not that killer shot with the talons out. But we | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
have a second falcon trained to grab the lower from the ground. | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
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After a day of high-speed failure inches from those talents, I | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
finally got it. The view to a kill. Brilliant. If that dummy had gone a | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
couple of centimetres further forward it could have been lethal! | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Your son Jack is a photographer, isn't he? That is right. I hope he | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
will make their life of this. He has a company, Jack Ross and | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
photography. What type of photography? Anything that people | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
will employ him for. He took this, of you doing some painting. Yes, I | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
think Jack wanted to record the fact that I dabbled badly in | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
acrylics. He wanted some evidence of that because he is a very good | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
artist and I am not. You are there relaxing, do you always wear a suit | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
to relax? I try to revive it is being taken by my son. He makes me | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
look like I fit the part. -- why try to if I am being taken by my | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
son. You are doing some travelogue now. The Mississippi is the current | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
one. It was a great idea because of the majesty of the river. It | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
touches the lives of people in 31 states. We started off in New | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
Orleans and you get a slice of civil history, the civil war, | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
slavery, plantations, and music, Elvis Presley. And to get to meet | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
people like Morgan Freeman, who has a blues club in Mississippi. | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
were going to say that you have in -- interviewed lots of famous | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
people but you were nervous about meeting Morgan Freeman. Yes, it is | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
out of in for me. I interview politicians and it is difficult to | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
stop them being interviewed at these days, as you probably agree. | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
We were not sure that we would get him and that he would do the | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
interview. I said to my colleagues, I tell you what, I will talk to him | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
for 15 minutes about invaders. He did the film, of course. I think | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
that would be a good way to introduce myself and it worked. At | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
the end of it, I said would you mind giving us an interview on | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
camera? And he said, do you have to ask? It was one of the most | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
wonderful moment of my life but I Let's look at one of the most | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
wonderful moments of your life. What do you remember about growing | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
up in this area? I still remember my childhood as being a lot of | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
freedom. I would get up in the morning, aged four, five, and go | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
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hand up my best friend. And we would just run. It is that voice. | :16:43. | :16:53. | |
And he went on to tell you that his influential within his community,? | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
He had a great influence. Long after the civil rights legislation, | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
Proms were still and mixed. The white children went to one prom and | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
the black kids went to another. Morgan Freeman was instrumental in | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
changing that. He paid for a Prom in which everybody could mix. And | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
he is justly proud of that. For us, it was an extraordinary thing to | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
remember, that so long after the civil rights legislation in the | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
1960s, these practices still occurred. That was what we found, | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
making these films on Mississippi. There were so many slices of | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
American life which one could observe and so many historical | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
moments which one could look back on. The Mighty Mississippi starts | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
next Tuesday at 9pm on ITV1. His these times of austerity, some | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
people go to any lengths to save a few pennies. A Arthur Smith has | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
taken to marching up to the houses where famous people lived and | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
demanding a free bed for the night. It has worked so far. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
My quest to sleep in the homes where famous British people lived | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
has often meant an improvised bed. But there is no camp bed or | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
slipping back tonight, because the former home of the writer George | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
Eliot has, conveniently, become a hotel. George Eliot was born near | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
Nuneaton in Warwickshire in 1819. The town's settings and characters | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
would later inspire her classic novels, like The Mill On The Floss | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
and Middlemarch. To clear up any confusion, I should say George | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
Eliot was a pen name. She was really Mary Anne Evans, the | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
daughter of the local estate manager. And therein lies a tale. | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
Marianne's father looked after the estate for a local family. Two | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
centuries later, it is still owned by the same family and the | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
farmhouse where Mary Anne was born is still the estate manager's home. | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
Her father must have been held in very high respect. And Mary and as | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
well. She would have been allowed to go where she wanted, when she | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
wanted. And she was allowed to use the library to read and further | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
education. And what a library it was, and is. Many of the books | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
would have been here in Mary and's time. She may not have realised at | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
the time, but she was soaking up these unusual surroundings for her | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
subsequent career as a writer. In one of her first stories, the house | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
appears as the castellated house of grey tinted stone. Another setting | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
inspiring scenes for her books was Griff house, once an ivy-clad | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
farmhouse, it became the family home shortly after Mary Anne was | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
born. She was a very clever young girl. You s, her education had to | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
finish 1836, because her mother was dying. So she had to come back here | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
and help run the farm, but she was intelligent and her father saw that | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
and was happy to pay for extra tuition for her. In 1849, after her | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
father died, Mary Anne moved to London to seek her literary fortune. | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
Eventually, she went to London, as we all must. Yes. Where she met all | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
sorts of radical bohemian people, and probably had an affair with the | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
man who owned the Westminster Review, for which she acted as | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
assistant editor for several years. And there, she met most of literary | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
London. She also met and began a relationship with the writer and | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
philosopher George Henry Lewes. Through his encouragement, she | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
began writing novels. How did she become George Eliot? She was living | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
with George Henry Lewes, but could not marry him because he was | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
already married. She wanted to avoid the equivalent of the tabloid | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
press getting on to the story and saying that George Henry Lewes' | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
common-law wife has written a book, so she used a pen name. She called | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
herself George, and she said Elliott was a solid sounding name. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Nobody knows exactly where the young Mary Anne Evans would have | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
slept when she lived here, but she certainly wrote about this attic. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
George Eliot's novel The Mill On The Floss was largely | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
autobiographical. And this is the room where her principal character, | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
Maggie, would come on wet days, not to sow or paint Ornette, but to | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
drive nails into a dull to vent her frustration. "three nails driven | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
into the head commemorated as many crises in Maggie's nine years of | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
the earthly struggle". I was thinking overnight about Mary | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
Anne's obvious frustrations growing up here. A very bright girl facing | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
a constrained life ahead of her. But while she did manage to leave | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
that behind, she obviously never forgot her formative years in | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
Warwickshire. Her brilliant and witty observations of the people | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
and places of her youth pulse through her best fiction. She ended | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
her days as one of Britain's most celebrated novelists. | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
She was not just a fine Victorian novelist, she was also a poet. We | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
understand you are a fan of poetry? I was made to like poetry. In | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
school, we were made to learn long passages and stand in the sun and | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
recite to any passers-by. Did you come to love it? I had come to love | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
it. I have always taken books of poetry with me when I went to | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
places like Beirut, when they were fighting. It was relaxing. Each it | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
is just as well that you like it, because we asked our viewers to | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
send in limericks about you. We will see how many we can read. | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
their broadcastable? We will see how many we can do in 45 seconds. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
The newsreader remembered forever. A bespectacled fellow named Trevor. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
McDonald his name, and massive his fame, a talent both gentle and | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
clever. There was a young man named Trevor, | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
who always preceded the weather. The most eloquent of men as he read | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
the News at Ten, no better newsreader was ever. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
There was a young man called Trevor, who decided to report the news for | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
ever. He travelled far and near, and then relaxed with a beer, | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
before spending the evening in leather. Had a good day find that | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
out? A wonderful night called Sir Trevor, | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
at newsreading is terribly clever. When you hear Big Ben bong, you | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
can't go wrong. I wish he could go on forever. | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
From the Trinidad Macdonald clan, comes a newsreading giant of a man. | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
The whole nation loves Trevor, may he go on forever - he is the pin-up | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
of everyone's gran! Are a must take you guys with me. You could do my | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
career some good. In his 20 years anchoring the News | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
at Ten, Sir Trevor introduced for thousands of light-hearted items, | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
which officially became known as "and finallys". So Sir Trevor, | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
would you do us the honour? finely tonight on The One Show, to | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Bradford, where Angellica Bell brings us news of the final | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
preparations for the animal games. Yes, Trevor, you join us at a | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
critical moment. British hopeful Deco is at the starting line, ready | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
for his 180 qualifier. -- 100 metre qualifier. Something is definitely | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
wrong with this picture. And this one. And this one. In fact, there | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
are over 6 million obese cats and dogs in the UK. Figures even | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
suggest that a quarter of all rabbits are obese, too. 84% of | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
these pets' owner has mistakenly believe them to be the right weight, | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
and this compounds a serious problem. We are in the middle of a | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
pet obesity epidemic. It is having a huge impact on their health and | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
their quality of life. We are getting the same weight related | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
problems we see in people - arthritis, diabetes, heart disease. | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
It is sad. A to combat this, the UK's leading pet charity, the PDSA, | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
has come up with a solution that is more carrot and stick. Becker, | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
Samantha, Fifi and 15 other podgy pets will spend six months working | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
out, dieting and toning. The Crown will be the -- the prize will be | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
the crowd of pet fit champion 2012. How did Samantha get so big? I had | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
got a 32 rabbits, because I rescue them. She just exploded. No thing | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
to do with what you are feeding her? And no, because the other | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
rabbits are slim. But she was getting fatter and fatter. The | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
other rabbits run around the garden, but she would not move. She would | :26:22. | :26:31. | |
sit there like a blob. He was getting a full bowl of food price | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
today. And as he grew, he got a bigger bowl, and he would have what | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
was left on our plates. Have you had to change your lifestyle? | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
Definitely no treats whatsoever, from a packet of crisps to a | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
biscuit in the morning. Fifi got fat because she was found starving | :26:55. | :27:03. | |
as a kitten. I think that fear has stayed with her. At any opportunity, | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
she used to gorge herself. What made you decide you needed to sort | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
it out? She could not seem to stand. She would walk and then collapse. I | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
want her to be happy and live as long as she can. Relay competition | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
like this make a difference? Diet and exercise. You can take dogs for | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
a walk and play in the local park. Cats actually like to play into | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
adulthood. You can encourage them to chase things. And rabbits need a | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
nice, large exercise run with things that they can jump on. | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
pets like depot might not give Jessica Ennis a run for her money, | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
but if these pervy creatures turn their waddles into walkies, it will | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
be an Olympian effort worth celebrating. We were let you know | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
how Deco, Samantha and Fifi get on over the next few months. | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
I could be wrong here, but I think a cat's whiskers are as long as the | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
wit of his body so that when it goes through something, it can | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
gauge how wide it is. So if a cat puts weight on, do the whiskers | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
grow longer? Maybe viewers can help out. It is a tricky one. I can't | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
help you. So you're new series starts on Tuesday. Any more travels | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
planned? I would like to think so. I would love to work in America. It | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
is very easy to work there. People know about television and they know | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
about television's bizarre requirements. A anywhere you would | :28:37. | :28:46. | |
like to go? I love most of America. Thank you for coming in. The Mighty | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
Mississippi starts on ITV won at 9pm next Tuesday. | :28:51. | :28:58. | |
Are you a fan of Little Britain? have seen it. I watch so much sport | :28:58. | :29:04. |