Former X Factor star Chico left the Loose Women panel gasping during Friday’s show after discussing his wife Daniyela’s weight on air.
The fitness instructor appeared on the daytime show to talk about the stroke that he suffered two weeks ago when he joked that people look at him and Daniyela and ask “who ate all the pies?”.
Chico was explaining that his stroke gave Daniyela the boost to embark on a healthier lifestyle.
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He said: “My wife, she is a smoker, she is size 18, she is a very large woman.
“She turned round and said, ‘I’m going to go from block fat to block fit!’ My God, it’s only taken 15 years and a stroke for you to get on that bike.
“I have been banging this drum for years! People look at me, Mr Six Pack and you, and it’s ‘Who ate all the pies?’”
As the audience gasped, he added: “The truth has to be told. We have different body types. She eats less than all of us, she’s just less active and has thyroid [issues].”
Meanwhile on the show, Chico was overcome with emotion as he recalled the moment he suffered a stroke two weeks ago.
The entertainer feared he would die in a car park after having a stroke while driving home from his job as a fitness instructor.
Chico cried as he said he thought he was just having a “spiritual experience” and called himself a “walking, talking miracle”.
He said: “I had finished a fitness class and I got in the car and rang my wife and I’m talking to her. I’m driving and I’m losing touch with reality. I’m losing touch with the five senses and life.”
Chico said he was completely unaware that he was having a stroke and thought he was having an “awakening” or “enlightenment”, which he said he has experienced before.
The star said he managed to get himself together but lost the use of his left arm and had slurred speech, while still completely unaware he was suffering a stroke.
Chico said as he was slumped in the car, he could see a photo of his children and he started thinking about saying goodbye to them and that he would miss huge milestones in their lives.
Breaking down in tears, he said: “I was looking at a picture of my daughter and I could see her turning into a video when she is getting married and I’m thinking, ‘I’m not going to be there.’
“I saw pictures of my son and I’m thinking I’m not going to be a granddad.”
Panellist Nadia Sawalha comforted the singer before Chico insisted he was OK to carry on the interview.
Managing to compose himself, he continued: “I looked up and I said, ‘I’m 47, I really don’t want to go just yet because I don’t feel like I’ve fulfilled my mission yet’.
“‘If I close my eyes and don’t wake up again and I just want you to know I’ve done my best.'”
Chico said he woke up an hour and a half later and managed to head to a nearby pub for some food.
He said he still didn’t realise the seriousness of what had happened to him and began his two hour journey home.
Chico explained: “I went to sleep and in the morning I still didn’t realise. I had to drive to Skegness for three hours, do another fitness class and I was literally out of the count when I got back home.
“I didn’t know it was a stroke. I am all about the fitness and I thought it was a virus.
“I went to the doctors on the Tuesday and he looked at the results of my MRI scan. There was a 50p sized clot on the right-hand side on my brain. As soon as the doctor came back he said. ‘This is a full-on stroke.'”
Chico, who wants to raise awareness of strokes during his fitness classes, said he’s still suffering side effects from the stroke and said he struggles to say full words and has a left hand twitch.
He added: “My life has been saved because I’m so fit, 100 percent. I feel 100 per cent within myself, my wife was not coping at all bless her.”
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Chico’s doctor said in a statement to the show: “It showed a large stroke on the MRI, I even questioned if I had the right scan.
“He has made a remarkable recovery. I have never seen a case like this before in my career.”
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