The Price Is Right host Drew Carey looked slimmer than ever as he stepped out for a solo lunch in Los Angeles.
The svelte comedian, 66, was spotted at iconic Hollywood restaurant Swingers as he enjoyed some time off from his hosting duties.
Carey, dressed in a grey shirt and jeans, sat down with a newspaper and a sandwich with all the trimmings before driving home in a flashy, vibrantly coloured Mini Cooper.
The legendary TV host’s dramatic weight loss in recent years came after a high-profile battle with diabetes, which he overcame after losing more than 80 pounds as a self-confessed “yo-yo dieter.”
Drew Carey looked slimmer than ever in a rare public appearance in Los Angeles
The legendary comedian lost more than 80 pounds after a high-profile battle with diabetes, which he proudly said earlier this year allows him to “not take medication” for the disease.
Carey, pictured in 2008, has been hosting The Price Is Right for 17 years but has insisted he has no plans to retire and is “not going anywhere”.
Carey’s afternoon in Los Angeles marks a rare public appearance for the comedian, who has remained single since the shocking murder of his fiancée, sex therapist Amie Harwick, in February 2020.
Authorities convicted Harwick’s ex-boyfriend, Gareth Pursehouse, of her murder last year, which Carey said finally allowed her to put the tragedy to rest.
“I can barely remember the guy’s name, that’s how far I’ve put him out of my life, but since the final verdict, it seems like we’ve all let out a sigh of relief and can finally move on,” he said. People.
“The whole process is over now and there’s nothing more to do or worry about… Just speaking for myself, it’s been a huge relief.”
While the star continued to host The Price Is Right, which she has done since Bob Barker retired in 2007, Carey said she keeps Harwick close to her heart as she continues her career.
He said he keeps a photo of her in his dressing room that he looks at just before going on stage and says that she is “with me always.”
“A lot of times I feel like I’m thinking about things and it’s almost like I can hear his voice saying, ‘Well, actually, it’s because of this and because of that.’ It’s really nice, honestly,” she added.
The comedian drove home alone in a flashy Mini Cooper, which came with a license plate that read: “I’d rather be traveling.”
Following his dramatic weight loss, the star admitted earlier this year that “I don’t take my shirt off in the pool, but yes, I did lose a few kilos.”
The 66-year-old has remained single since the shocking murder of his fiancée, sex therapist Amie Harwick, in February 2020, after they were pictured together in 2017.
Followers of Carey’s decades-long career may remember him as a much larger man in the days of his breakout hit, The Drew Carey Show, but he has managed to lose more than 80 pounds after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes more than a decade ago.
He proudly said that his weight loss allowed him to overcome his diabetes completely and now he does not take “any medication” for the disease.
Carey accomplished the feat by limiting carbohydrates in her diet and stepping up her exercise routine, though she admitted that Entertainment Tonight in February that he feels he ‘has something more to lose’.
“I don’t take my shirt off in the pool, but yes, I have lost a few kilos.”
He said Men’s magazine that before maintaining the weight loss, I went on yo-yo diets and lost and gained “450 kilos throughout my life.”
But after Carey was spotted tucking into a large gourmet sandwich and fries at Swingers, a source told Closer Weekly that they feared she could be “going back to her old habits” amid allegations that The Price Is Right is “fixed.”
“All the producers are very clear that nothing on the show is rigged. But he does feel attacked and when he’s upset, his defense mechanism in the past has been food,” the source said.
‘You could end up gaining back all the weight you lost and putting your health at risk.’
Carey was spotted enjoying a sandwich at iconic Tinseltown restaurant Swingers in Hollywood.
Drew ate a large gourmet sandwich and fries, which a source close to him feared could be a sign he was “falling back into his old habits” to deal with the stress.
Although he looked slimmer than ever on his most recent visit to Swingers, he said that before he lost the weight, the restaurant was one of his favorite places to eat.
‘My freshman year, after The Price Is Right, I used to go to Swingers Diner and order a plate of pasta, a muffin and iced tea with a bunch of lemons,’ she recalled.
“Then I would come home, have Doritos and a bunch of Pepsis and an Ambien to sleep. It was horrible to live like that.”
Carey, who has been hosting for 17 years, said he has no plans to retire, saying: Entertainment Tonight Earlier this year, “he’s not going anywhere.”
“I think Bob (Barker) made a mistake by retiring,” he added. “I’m not going to make the same mistake.”
Carey opened up about her love for the game show earlier this month, when she made a surprising admission about why some contestants seem to act strangely while on air.
He told TV Insider that to overcome pre-filming nerves, many contestants drink or ingest marijuana to calm themselves, admitting that “this happens here all the time.”
“They’ll take a jelly bean or I’ll smell alcohol on their breath,” Carey said. “It’s nothing unusual.”
Carey was not critical of the contestants’ drinking, saying meeting “normal people living normal lives” was her favorite part of the long-running show.
“This is average America,” he continued.
“There are no ultra-rich CEOs or top executives,” Carey said. “These are middle-class and working-class people. All religions. It’s a cross-section of America. Ordinary people are more interesting than celebrities.”
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