Tonight Lenny Henry will appear on The Graham Norton Show. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Comedian Lenny Henry left school at 16 - now he's about to begin a PhD. A lot of people in my family were very smart, but didn't go to university.". Teachers were also allowed to use corporal punishment, such as hitting pupils with a plimsoll or a stick. “I’ve lost between two and a half and three stone. Many celebrities will slim down during the series and James managed to dance off a whopping five stone. "We were never encouraged to do O-levels, university was never mentioned.". He cut out sugar to shed the weight, as well as taking up yoga and swimming. Another TV star, James Martin’s weight loss has impressed many fans. "I would never have done Othello last year.
After some speculation he cleared up the reason for his slimmer frame. The Teaching Awards 2010 UK ceremony will be held on Sunday 31 October at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London and is broadcast on BBC2 at 6pm. He also revealed he’s amped up the amount of exercise, saying: “I’ve also been running a lot. Lenny Henry left school at 16 without O-levels - and is now beginning a PhD, Lenny Henry as a 12-year-old schoolboy in Dudley, The degree course gave him the confidence to play Othello, Project Greenglow and the battle with gravity, The boy who refused to leave police custody. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Lenny was once married to fellow comedian Dawn French, and initially lost weight after splitting with his wife in 2011. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites. Since 2011 the comedian and actor has kept the weight off, contributing his further weight loss to a play he was in, The Comedy of Errors at London’s National Theatre. Read more. "I'm not an idiot, I never was an idiot," he says. It's like the Krankies turning out to be rocket scientists.". So while he was performing two shows a night in Blackpool, the rising comedy star began studying for his O-levels, through a college in nearby Preston. I was really jealous, I wanted to punch people out. … On stage each day he was doing comedy impressions for holidaymakers - and then in his spare time he was reading Yeats, Tennyson and Shakespeare, as he fast-tracked his way through English literature and language. "I have heard that I've lost all this weight for a variety of reasons," he said, adding: “None of them true.". At the start of the show, he weighed in at a staggering 19st 7lb but this soon changed as he began training. But he talks warmly about the inspiring teachers - in particular a science teacher, Mr Brookes, who first encouraged him in his comedy by letting him use a reel-to-reel recorder to rehearse funny voices.
The actor revealed he was playing a man “who doesn't get three full meals a day”, and this was the reason for his slimmer look.
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