Danny Dyer's 'sausage diet' for Rivals made him sick
Actor Danny Dyer has revealed he binged on takeaway dinners and ate "12 sausages a night" to put on weight for his role in Jilly Cooper adaptation Rivals.
Danny Dyer binged on takeaway dinners and ate "12 sausages a night" to put on weight for his role in Rivals.
The 48-year-old actor plays Freddie Jones in the hit Disney Plus adaptation of Jilly Cooper's 1988 book and he had to pile on the pounds to play the chubby electronics salesman, but Danny's sausage-rich diet left him feeling ill.
During an appearance on his Live And Let Dyers podcast, Danny explained: "I've realised I'm quite method. While I was play Fred Fred I have put on a stone ... He's chubby and he's meant to be. That's the point of Fred Fred. In your brain, that's how he was meant to be. My diet was awful. I was living on my jack [own] in Bristol, living off Deliveroos [takeaways] . And I’d buy a pack of sausages - which is a 12 pack.
"So I found myself making 12 sausages of a night. Not every night as I’d be f****** dead ...
"I was cooking them all and I'd make myself a sandwich and you could only really get five in a sandwich. Then I ended up munching the rest of them sausages as the night went on. I was dipping them in ketchup."
He went on to add: "I didn’t have enough olive oil in my diet. So I felt constipated. I couldn’t go for a pony [c***]."
The second series of Rivals is due to premiere in May and speaking before the shoot, Danny admitted the new episodes will be even better than the first season plus there's "plenty of naughtiness".
According to Grazia magazine, he said: "It's so lavish and so lush and I'm very, very excited about it. [...] I've just got to concentrate on bringing Freddie back and this series is so much better than the first. It's that difficult second album thing but, honestly, the writers and the producers have absolutely nailed it.
"I can't wait for people to see it ...
"I love the 80s, I love the nostalgia of it, it's got an incredible look, the music. And Rivals wasn't being apologetic about the 80s. It was going, "look, this is how it was" and I think people really appreciated that.
"People want to choose what they watch and what they're offended at [sic] as adults. We want to make our own decisions and if we don't fancy it, we don't watch it. If you want a bit of naughtiness in your life, go and watch it. And Rivals has plenty of naughtiness."
