Brian Cox claims to take Ozempic as he shows off his trim look before sharing about near-death experience
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: ‘Succession’ star Brian Cox has shared that he takes Ozempic, an anti-diabetic medication, which has lately become quite popular among celebrities as a weight loss drug.
But Cox denied taking it to lose weight. He shared on ‘The Jonathan Ross Show’, which will air on Saturday night, February 15, that he’s on Ozempic because of his type 2 diabetes, as reported by the Daily Mail.
The 78-year-old actor also received a compliment from the host for his trim body as he added, “I know because… Ozempic. No, it's true. I am a diabetic and Ozempic is for diabetics, it is not for fat people.”
Earlier, A-listers like Amy Schumer, Elon Musk, Sharon Osbourne, and Rebel Wilson admitted to taking the medicine.
Brian Cox thanked Laurence Olivier for saving his life
Elsewhere during the interview, Brian Cox also recalled a 1965 incident where he could have lost his life but Laurence Olivier saved him.
He told Ross, “I was working at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. I had this appointment with him and I was supposed to fly down to London to see him.”
But as he was about to leave, he received “a note from Olivier's people saying that he couldn't see me because he had other things he had to do so he needed to cancel the interview,” ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’ actor revealed.
Cox mentioned that the flight he would have taken crashed during its landing at London Heathrow Airport, claiming the lives of all the passengers.
“I was sitting there and I thought I won't go to London,” he said, before recalling, “I went home and the following morning I got up and there was a Sunday Post and it said in the back that '’Edinburgh flight from Turnhouse crashes at Heathrow killing everyone on board’ and that's the flight I would have been on.”
“In a way, he saved my life. I was bowled over by it,” Cox added.
Brian Cox proposed to his now-wife after thinking about split
The Primetime Emmy Award winner also spoke about another incredible moment in his life while doing the interview alongside Christina Hendricks, Oti Mabuse, and Chris McCausland.
Cox has been married to his third wife Nicole Ansari since 2002 and he disclosed that he proposed to her while they were thinking about breaking up.
He said, “We were at the point of splitting up which is a very good basis for a proposal. My wife had been to India and I hadn't seen her for a while - I was doing a film in Austin, Texas. We sat down and we were talking.”
“We made a decision to split and I thought the other alternative was to get married. She thought about it for about 25 seconds and she said ‘I think that's a good idea,’” Cox mentioned.
