Dan Walker has revealed that he ‘used to cry within the bathrooms’ whereas presenting BBC Breakfast throughout his look on Wednesday’s installment of This Morning.
The previous BBC Breakfast host, 46, left the early morning present in 2022 to current Channel 5‘s night information and now additionally presently presents Basic FM radio.
Dan recalled that his early 3am begins was one of many difficulties of his job and made him wrestle with dangerous sleep deprivation.
Chatting with This Morning hosts Josie Gibson and Dermot O’Leary on the ITV Daytime present, Dan make clear the draw back of waking up double early for work.
He mentioned: ‘Once I used to do BBC Breakfast, you realize what it’s like. If that alarm goes off at three that’s far too early, that’s flight to Spain time isn’t it.
Dan Walker, 46, has revealed that he ‘used to cry within the bathrooms’ whereas presenting BBC Breakfast throughout his look on Wednesday’s installment of This Morning
The previous BBC Breakfast host left the early morning present in 2022 to current Channel 5’s night information and in addition presently presents Basic FM radio (pictured with BBC’s Sally Nugent)
‘I rise up now about 5.30am/ 5.45am, which is actually a lie in and I really feel nice, I really feel refreshed and I actually benefit from the job I do.
‘By Wednesday I used to be, like, full zombie mode. And likewise you get actually emotional. By Wednesday I used to be like, finish of the present, you’re like, within the bathrooms simply crying.
‘Something units you off. Somebody says one thing good about your trousers and you’re like [fake cries].
‘Not on a regular basis [he cried], however I believe you simply get somewhat bit emotional when you find yourself sleep disadvantaged.’
It comes after the star revealed in November 2023 that he was informed he had cancer during a terrifying hospital stay in Poland.
The broadcaster was taken to hospital after his kidneys stopped working and he was pumped with eight litres of saline resolution.
His head additionally doubled in dimension and he needed to stroll round bare as his physique was so bloated he couldn’t match into his boxer shorts.
Talking on the podcast White Wine Query Time, Dan mentioned he’s without end grateful to his former colleague Richard Hughes who accompanied him to the hospital again when the scare occurred in 2012.
Dan recalled that his early 3am begins was one of many difficulties of his job and made him wrestle with dangerous deprivation
Chatting with hosts Josie Gibson and Dermot O’Leary on the ITV Daytime present, Dan make clear the draw back of waking up double early for work
![He said: 'By Wednesday I was, like, full zombie mode. And also you get really emotional. By Wednesday I was like, end of the show, you are like, in the toilets just crying. Anything sets you off. Someone says something nice about your trousers and you are like [fake cries]'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/02/22/14/81580225-13113579-image-a-129_1708611312216.jpg)
He mentioned: ‘By Wednesday I used to be, like, full zombie mode. And likewise you get actually emotional. By Wednesday I used to be like, finish of the present, you’re like, within the bathrooms simply crying. Something units you off. Somebody says one thing good about your trousers and you’re like [fake cries]’
He mentioned: ‘I used to be in Poland a number of years in the past masking the European Championships and I had a barely unusual lump in my abdomen.
‘My respiratory was altering somewhat bit and I went to the medical centre within the broadcast centre there, and inside two and a half minutes I used to be behind an ambulance on my option to a Polish A&E.
‘And a man known as Richard Hughes, who’s the editor of Match Of The Day now, and a man I’d labored with for a few years, he dropped every thing and got here with me.
‘You already know instances in life once you suppose typically you want somebody to carry your hand.
‘It did get a bit scary that night time – about two o’clock within the morning a Polish advisor got here in and informed me that I had most cancers as a result of they’d seen some shadows on my kidney. He used the phrase tumour.’
However later Dan requested if the pinnacle advisor may have a look at his scan to make 100% certain it was most cancers earlier than he known as his household and informed them.
He mentioned: ‘At eight o’clock within the morning she got here in right away and she or he mentioned ‘I’ve bought excellent news, it’s not a tumour.’
It turned out Dan didn’t have most cancers however was as a substitute battling a severe virus that harmed the functioning of his kidneys.
