{"id":126692,"date":"2025-10-16T21:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/126692\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:41:11","slug":"at-73-celebrity-traitor-celia-imrie-reveals-the-only-exercise-she-does-for-good-health-and-its-not-the-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/126692\/","title":{"rendered":"At 73, Celebrity Traitor Celia Imrie reveals the only exercise she does for ‘good health’ \u2013 and it’s not the gym"},"content":{"rendered":"

If proof were needed that age is just a number, look no further than 73-year-old Celia Imrie pushing a giant Trojan Horse up a steep hill alongside her Celebrity Traitors castmates \u2013 and it wasn’t just performative.<\/p>\n

‘I loathe gyms, so my only exercise is walking<\/a>,’ she said in a recent interview withThe Times<\/a>. ‘If I meet a pal, I\u2019d rather walk and talk than sit on my backside in a coffee shop. I\u2019ve got two lovely new hips, which have given me a lot more energy \u2013 but I don\u2019t like telling people about them because they assume I\u2019m 98.’
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Celia Imrie says walking is her only form of exercise<\/p>\n

Celia admits, however, that she wishes she could \u2018run<\/a> more and run faster, because now [I] can\u2019t run very fast at all\u2019. <\/p>\n

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Previously, she told The Guardian<\/a> she also loves cycling<\/a> by the sea and has an \u2018orange belt in Taekwondo\u2019. \u2018You need to watch out when I do it \u2013 I get very aggressive,\u2019 she warned.<\/p>\n

As for her nutrition<\/a>, breakfast nowadays consists of \u2018a cup of tea with masala spice, followed by lots of coffee. Then two slices of brown toast with butter, marmite and lemon marmalade \u2013 all together. On Saturday, I walk down to Notting Hill farmers\u2019 market and buy half a dozen misshapen eggs.’ <\/p>\n

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Celia Imrie shortly before her 73rd birthday in July<\/p>\n

But her relationship with food hasn\u2019t always been so straightforward. \u2018Food was a serious issue for me when I was a teenager,\u2019 she told The Times. \u2018I developed anorexia and, although I don\u2019t like to linger on it, I am aware that young girls are still dealing with those same problems today. Part of the treatment in my day was electroconvulsive therapy. It wasn\u2019t nice and I don\u2019t think it helped in the long run. Thankfully, modern treatment isn\u2019t quite as brutal.\u2019<\/p>\n

She\u2019s always been conscious of her health \u2013 something which stems from her parents. \u2018I\u2019m a doctor\u2019s daughter and that means you have to jolly well get on with it,\u2019 she shared with The Guardian. \u2018But my first toast with a drink is still good health because without that you\u2019re done for. I was talking to Dame Mags [Maggie Smith] about this recently. Stamina and good health are hidden qualities you absolutely need as an actor.\u2019 <\/p>\n

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As Women\u2019s Health UK\u2019s fitness director (and a qualified yoga teacher), Bridie Wilkins has been passionately reporting on exercise, health and nutrition since the start of her decade-long career in journalism. She secured her first role at Look Magazine, where her obsession with fitness began and she launched the magazine\u2019s health and fitness column, Look Fit, before going on to become Health and Fitness writer at HELLO!. Since, she has written for Stylist, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle, The Metro, Runner\u2019s World and Red.<\/p>\n

Now, she oversees all fitness content across womenshealthmag.com.uk<\/a> and the print magazine, spearheading leading cross-platform franchises, such as \u2018Fit At Any Age\u2019, where we showcase the women proving that age is no barrier to exercise. She has also represented the brand on BBC Radio London, plus various podcasts and Substacks \u2013 all with the aim to encourage more women to exercise and show them how.<\/p>\n

Outside of work, find her trying the latest Pilates studio, testing her VO2 max for fun (TY, Oura), or posting workouts on Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If proof were needed that age is just a number, look no further than 73-year-old Celia Imrie pushing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[76683,341,76684,343,18,525,135,19,17,342,76682],"class_list":{"0":"post-126692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-celia-imrie-swears-by-walking-for-fitness","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-37c97768-30ff-4191-823a-62919511f4ec","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-fitness","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-locale-gb","18":"tag-shorttitle-at-73"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}