{"id":608918,"date":"2025-12-03T05:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608918\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:41:15","slug":"bbc-legend-david-dimblebys-health-as-87-year-old-confronted-in-street-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608918\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC legend David Dimbleby’s health as 87-year-old confronted in street | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC<\/a> icon David Dimbleby disappeared from the spotlight after leaving Question Time<\/a> as host in December 2018 \u2013\u00a0and now only makes rare public appearances. However, this month he\u2019s back on our screens for a new documentary investigating the British Royal Family, entitled What\u2019s the Monarchy For?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Now 87 years old, David has been relatively quiet on his health over the years. But he has suffered tragic losses \u2013 with his brother Nicholas dying from motor neurone disease at the age of 77 last year. David himself is a passionate supporter of assisted dying, and in 2023 made a Radio 4 documentary with Nicholas following his MND diagnosis.<\/p>\n

He said at the time: \u201cMND is a death sentence. And you not only know that your life is going to be cut short by it but that you will deteriorate and nothing can be done to arrest it. There is no real management of it. It\u2019s the doom. And every single day people are being struck down by it.\u201d<\/p>\n

David said of his brother: \u201cWhen he first rang to tell me of his diagnosis [in February 2023], I thought: it can\u2019t be Nick, it can\u2019t. Nick is too strong, he\u2019s too fit, he\u2019s too active, he\u2019s too involved. He had such wonderful, big, strong hands. Sculptor\u2019s hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

David also lost his famous father, Richard Dimbleby, at the age of just 52, from cancer.<\/p>\n

As for David himself, fans have been left speechless at how \u201cspry\u201d the star looks \u2013 although over the years he has acknowledged that he is advancing in years. During an interview with The Telegraph, he admitted: \u201cI need something that makes me sit up straight\u201d when it comes to getting comfortable in a chair.<\/p>\n

During his stint as Question Time<\/a> host, he said he \u201cnever got tired\u201d, explaining: \u201cI never prepared for it, though one year I do remember looking up what astronauts eat to give them energy and found it was bananas. They didn\u2019t work for me. I stuck to chocolate and coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, Dimbleby admits he is a smoker \u2013 and that he only started in his 70s. He began smoking roll-ups to help him relax while taking his nephews sailing.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t start exercising until the age of 70, quipping: \u201cIn my day, no-one went jogging or anything like that, it seemed sort of ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his new documentary, David was confronted in the street by one member of the public<\/a> who branded him a \u201cBBC<\/a> liberal leftie\u201d \u2013 and who warned the presenter he had \u201cbetter be objective\u201d in his latest piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC icon David Dimbleby disappeared from the spotlight after leaving Question Time as host in December 2018 \u2013\u00a0and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[192,190415,190413,77,173976,82533,38484,190414,48486,519,16,15,190416],"class_list":{"0":"post-608918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-bbc-documentaries","10":"tag-david-dimbleby","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-jonathan-dimbleby","13":"tag-mnd","14":"tag-monarchy","15":"tag-nicholas-dimbleby","16":"tag-question-time","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-whats-the-monarchy-for"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115654038986060916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}