Viewers' surprise at Hugh Bonneville's slimline look

Hugh CAN this be? Viewers’ surprise at star of Downton Abbey’s slimline look as Bonneville, 56, reveals his dramatic weight loss and drastically shorter haircut on BBC’s The One Show

  • Hugh Bonneville is a shadow of well-padded Earl of Grantham in Downton Abbey
  • The 56-year-old revealed weight loss on Thursday, wearing open-necked shirt 
  • Viewers expressed surprise, with one writing he has ‘lost a hell of a lot of weight’

Perhaps he’s been following Boris Johnson’s advice to get fit.

Hugh Bonneville is a shadow of the well-padded Earl of Grantham who feasted nightly on Mrs Patmore’s delicious dinners in Downton Abbey. 

The 56-year-old revealed his dramatic weight loss on BBC1’s The One Show on Thursday night, looking smart in a pink open-necked shirt with a drastically shorter haircut. 


Half the man he used to be: Bonneville on The One Show, right, and how he was: The actor in his more portly days, left

Viewers expressed surprise at the dramatic new look.

One Twitter user wrote: ‘Wow, I didn’t recognise Hugh Bonneville on The One Show to start with! What a transformation!’

Another said: ‘Blimey, Hugh Bonneville is half the man he used to be.’ 

And a third wrote: ‘Hugh Bonneville has lost a hell of a lot of weight!’ 

The actor engaged a personal trainer ten years ago after his wife Lulu Williams told him he was ‘fat as a pig’.

But it seems he has boosted his workout regime in lockdown.

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