Paul O'Grady has revealed that he has overcome what he "definitely" believes to be coronavirus.
The disease has wreaked worldwide havoc over the last few months, effectively shutting down most economies and killing almost 100,000 people to date.
Speaking to BBC London, the 64-year-old presenter claimed that he fought off the virus with a homemade concoction called 'Four Thieves' Vinegar'.
"I'm alright now. Last week I had flu like symptoms. I didn't have the cough bad, I certainly didn't have the temperature or anything like that so I just got on with it," he said. "That was when the heating had gone so it was minus two down here and freezing and I thought someone had got it in for me. I'm fine now.
"Most definitely [it was coronavirus]. That's knocking about, but there's also flus and seasonal colds going about so you've got to tell yourself and learn the difference.
"There's a concoction - four thieves' vinegar - and I made it up. In France during the plague in the 1600s four thieves were going around and they were knocking off everybody's houses and robbing the dead so when they were finally sentenced to be burned at the stake the magistrate said 'if you tell us how you've managed to survive not getting the plague I'll lower the sentence to hanging' which was big of him.
"Basically this is the recipe which is cider vinegar with as many cloves of garlic in it as you can take and four different kinds of herbs to represent the four thieves. I've got a bit of rosemary, parsley, and lemon grass, and bay leaf and leave it to steep and just have a tiny little bit every day. I'm having it at the moment, oh God yeah."
O'Grady was forced to take time off from his Radio 2 show last month due to the threat of the disease.
Neil Wilkes
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