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Lorraine Kelly has candidly spoken out about her own struggle with shingles, describing the condition as "horrid" on her ITV show.The 64 year old host was back on air for another instalment of 'Lorraine', where she chats about everything from celeb gossip to personal health battles. In a segment with Tyler West, they touched upon comedian Bob Mortimer's severe experience with shingles, prompting Lorraine to reveal her own painful encounter with the illness. Discussing Bob Mortimer's recent revelation about his intense six-month struggle with shingles, which left him with muscle wastage and needing a wheelchair for mobility during filming, Lorraine empathised, saying: "Shingles, I know from personal experience, I've had it's awful, Tyler.

Bob Mortimer, 65, has defied debilitating health problems to make his TV return, with the BBC commissioning a new series of his Gone Fishing show alongside pal Paul Whitehouse. On the last series of the show, the comic opened up about his health struggles after he developed shingles - a painful skin rash triggered by the same virus that causes chicken pox.

Bob Mortimer has revealed that he saw a white light at the end of a tunnel while undergoing hearth surgery.The Gone Fishing star, who rose to fame as part of a comedy double act with Vic Reeves (real name Jim Moir) in the ’90s, underwent triple heart bypass surgery in 2015 after it was discovered that 95 per cent of his arteries were blocked.Speaking on Kathy Burke’s Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake podcast, Mortimer admitted that seeing the white light made him believe in life after death.“I did see the light at the end of the tunnel. I experienced going towards the light and feeling happier than I have ever felt, ever.”He continued: “It was quite extraordinary, and then I woke up a day later and I was OK.

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker will offer an acerbic look at the coronavirus pandemic in a half-hour lockdown special for BBC Two.

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