Jeremy Clarkson has shed two stone eating small portions of lettuce.

Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson

The 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' host took inspiration from Queen Elizabeth's diet to slim down, and he much prefers sipping on rose wine to downing pints of lager nowadays.

The 59-year-old TV presenter said: "The queen doesn't go to the gym and she doesn't run and she's 93 and she's all right.

"Apparently she only has a forkful, she only has a tiny bit, that's what I've heard. She'll sit down and just have one little bit of mousse and bit of a lettuce leaf."

While he may not need the prize money as much as some others, Jeremy admits he would still find it tough if he was the one being asked a £1 million question on the quiz show.

And the former 'Top Gear' presenter insists he doesn't splash his cash if he doesn't need to.

He added to The Sun newspaper: "I'm from Yorkshire, and Yorkshire people never ever lose the value of a pound. Ask anyone who knows me - I'm still, 'How much?'

"My great-grandfather once stood in front of Harrods, and he was a wealthy man, very Northern, and he went, 'I could afford to buy ­everything in that window, but I'm not going to' - and I operate on that principle as well.

"I've got a 12-year-old Range Rover and I live in a two-bedroom cottage."

Earlier this year, Jeremy admitted he had lost weight thanks to cycling - but picked up a number of injuries because of his bike.

He said: "I went on a gap year to Indochina. They just have a better diet out there.

"Plus I had a bicycle rather than a car.

"Cycling is not a good thing to do, I'm all broken as a result of it but I did lose a lot of weight.

"Where I was staying was separated from the small town by a mountain.

"It was only three kilometres and I cycled every day."


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