Roseanne star, John Goodman, looks a world away from his days on the iconic sitcom in a jaw-dropping selfie, which popped up on Instagram this week
John Goodman is unrecognisable after dropping a staggering 14 stone(Image: Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
Hollywood star, John Goodman, is unrecognisable after dropping a staggering 14 stone. The sitcom legend, 74, who shot to fame playing Roseanne Barr’s beleaguered husband, Dan Conner, in the actress’ self-named show, weighed in at 28 stone when he was at his heaviest.
The star’s weight was often the butt of the jokes and plotlines on the Emmy award-winning Roseanne before John quit drinking in 2007 and embarked on an epic weight loss journey. However, after dropping 14 stone three years ago, the Argo actor seems to have lost even more weight recently.
Fans couldn’t believe it when The Flinstones star popped up in a selfie on Instagram after someone spotted him in the supermarket.
When Wizards of Waverly Place actor, David DeLuise, bumped into John doing a spot of shopping, he was delighted when the star agreed to pose for a selfie in which he looks a world away from his Dan Conner days.
Wearing a denim shirt and white t.shirt with a pair of glasses poking out of the top, John smiles next to his superfan, who captioned the snap: “He was my childhood!! Legend ! I love that I get to say that to someone 😉 if you know you know.”
He certainly looks very different from his younger years after deciding he needed to enter rehab in 2007.
Revealing he had been dangerously addicted to alcohol for 30 years, he told the Guardian: “‘It was 30 years of a disease that was taking its toll on everyone around me and it had got to the point where, every time I did it, it was becoming more and more debilitating. It was life or death. It was time to stop.”
By 2010, John had lost 100lb, after cutting out sugar and working out six days a week with Serena Williams’ trainer Mackie Shilstone.
Shilstone told People magazine that the Big Lebowski star ‘remembers what it feels like to be extremely heavy and it’s something he doesn’t want again.’
The celebrity trainer put John on a ‘Mediterranean-style eating plan’ as well as instructing him to complete 10,000 to 12,000 steps on the treadmill, reports New York Post.
John attributed his shrinking frame to ‘portion control’, rather than ‘just shoving everything into my mouth,’ writes AARP magazine.
However, implying he may not be able to keep the weight off, he added: “But I don’t want to be an example to anybody when the weight comes thundering back on – when I start eating Crisco out of the can with a spoon and a side of confectioner’s sugar.”
Thankfully, John was able to stick to his new lifestyle and by 2023 had dropped a staggering 200lb.
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