Former Top Gear host Chris Evans has revealed that he narrowly avoided making it onto 2016's deceased list, claiming he "nearly pegged it" over Christmas.
During his BBC Radio 2 show this week, Chris explained: "It started over Christmas. [I was] felled like a sack of spuds on Christmas Eve and still sort of have it.
"I peaked at a temperature of 106 on holiday. Nearly pegged it, to be honest.
"At one point I thought, 'Do you know what? I've got a lovely life and love my family to death but do you know… I feel so ill at the moment.' It was nearly curtains for me."
Thanks to a doctor's diagnosis, he made it through to 2017, telling the Daily Mail: "A very nice Bajan doctor diagnosed me with an upper airways infection; actually three – one for the ears, one for the nose and one for the throat.
"He was quite amazed when the thermometer showed that lava-like temperature reading of 106 degrees."
Chris continued: "Immediately he gave me a shot of something rather lively in my gluteus maximus plus three oral medicines that I had to take at various intervals in the day, whilst avoiding grapefruit. Go figure."
Chris took over Top Gear from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May last year, but quit the series in July after a mixed reception to his first series in charge (to put it mildly) and some pretty unforgiving overnight ratings.
