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GOSH spoke exclusively to comedian Jack Whitehall ahead of Channel 4’s Comedy Gala.The Comedy Gala at London’s O2 Arena is benefitting Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.

What motivated you to get involved with the gala?It’s something great to get involved in. The opportunity to do something that helps such a great hospital is something you’d never even think about turning down.

Do you have any connections to GOSH at all?Not really. Well, I went to school with Jane Collins’ daughter and I heard she works here. What does she do? .Oh wow! I did a speech at her daughter’s birthday… so I guess she owes me one!

What are you thoughts on the comedy gala benefitting GOSH?I think it’s great that the comedy gala is benefitting GOSH. It’s a great cause.

What do you do to stay fit?I play five-a-side football but I’m not very good to be honest. I also run. In fact, I go for runs with my mum down the Hammersmith. She’s not as fast as me though – I set the pace.

What are your top tips for looking and feeling good?Five-a-day. It’s all about the five-a-day isn’t it? Actually, my tip is to cheat a bit – but in a good way – like have two smoothies and be done for the week.If I’m going to be completely honest sometimes I don’t always manage to have my five-a-day and I feel bad, but I soon get over it.

Have you ever had to stay in hospital? How was it?I haven’t had to stay in hospital but my dad has. He had a stomach illness, the same one as Stewart Lee, and he was in for three weeks. His illness meant he didn’t each much of his food so I did. It was rank.Oh, and my sister was in for shingles once. We both had it but she had it really bad. She still has scars from it.I think shingles is the worst illness to get – not because it is bad but because it sounds so fun: ‘shingles’. It sounds like it’s a joke. It should be a comedy illness

What is your advice to children and young people who have health problems?Be nice to your mum. You need your mum to look after you when you are ill. They’re really important when you are ill so you need to look after them.

Would you have liked a health website written specifically teenagers when you were younger?Yeah, there were, but it’s good to see that there are things like that are out there.

Do you have any other health advice you’d like to share?Get your five-a-day!

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This really is comedy royalty at its best as the UK’s best and brightest unite for one night only in Channel 4’s Comedy Gala, in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital including Alan Carr,Michael McIntyre, Johnathan Ross ,Lee Evans, Bill Bailey, Rob Brydon and Jack Dee.

The Comedy Gala at London’s O2 Arena is benefitting Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.

We were lucky enough to get our hands on some great Interviews with some of the finest

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GOSH spoke exclusively to comedian Michael McIntyre ahead of Channel 4’s Comedy Gala.

What do you do to stay fit?

Just standing up I’m out of breath, which is really unfortunate as when I’m on stage I have one of those mic things on my head where it is right in front of my mouth so you can hear how out of breath I am. It’s no secret. I have actually got myself a personal trainer now, his name is Matt.  I don’t know why I pay him. I do all the work and all he does is count. 1, 2, 3, 4… that’s all he does! It seems all you need to be able to do to be a personal trainer is count. I could have got my accountant to do it – it would have been cheaper.

What are your top tips for looking and feeling good?

I like to look at the day as two days. You wake up, have three meals and then go back to bed. Then wake up in the afternoon, have three meals and then go back to bed. And that’s how you do it, that it how you become happy and fat.

Have you ever had to stay in hospital? How was it?

I was there when my wife was giving birth but I just sat there in stunned silence. I was also in hospital myself when I dislocated my shoulder but I don’t remember it. I have been told about it, and apparently I was really arrogant. I was out of it on morphine and all I would talk about was my tour. I don’t remember a thing about it.

What is your advice to children and young people who have health problems? Oh, no. I can’t give out advice. Not someone like me.

Would you have liked a health website written specifically teenagers when you were younger? It would have been lovely to have a website like this when I was younger. All we had was the little red book under my mother’s bed. It can be dangerous to Google injuries so it’s good to have something like this to trust. You go on some sites and it’s terrifying. Do you have any other health advice you’d like to share? I’m not the one to be giving out health advice. I was told that if I exercised I would have loads of energy and look good but that’s not the case. I only still go because I paid in bulk. I exercise and now I look terrible AND feel terrible.

Stay Tuned for more Interviews from the Channel 4 Comedy Gala Comedians!