Our hearts are going out to Johnny Vegas this morning as he made a heart-wrenching admission.

 

Fans have noted how the 48-year-old has dropped weight drastically, and there's a very good reason behind his weight loss.

 

Taking a seat on the This Morning couch, Vegas opened up about shedding three stone after he sadly lost his father to cancer. 

 

Photo credit: Johnny Vegas

 

Explaining to Holly and Phillip, he said: "If you had a good parent and you miss them...your responsibility then is to hopefully try and be a decent parent to your own children - and be around." 

 

"The big thing is my smoking that I want to stop, but the last time I stopped I piled weight on. So I need to get light enough to exercise… it's taken 15 months of walking past bread, and cheese and everything I love," he added.

 

 

Johnny's appearance on the popular morning show was to raise awareness for a charity coffee morning for Macmillan, an organisation close to his own heart. They were there for his family when they needed a support system the most.

 

"I always understood the work that they did but on a personal level when my dad fell ill, terminally ill, as a family it hit us really hard, and we needed someone to come in and help us process what was going on," he said.

 

"It was fairly quick… and we went into a tailspin and thank God they [Macmillan] came in. They explained everything," he added.

 

"The process of what's going to happen, the process of the illness, how you need to communicate with each other as a family… and I was grateful for their help in getting Dad into a hospice and explaining to my mum that keeping him at home necessarily the best option."

 

 

Earlier this year, Johnny, whose real name is Michael Joseph Pennington announced the end of his seven-year relationship with wife Maia Dunphy. 

 

The pair are parents to two-year-old, Tom Laurence, and Johnny has another son from a previous relationship.

 

In a statement, Maia and Johnny said the boys are now their 'main concern."

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