Britain's heaviest man has sadly died just days away from celebrating his 34th birthday, it was revealed this week.
Jason Holton died tragically young at the age of 33 with his mum by his side after suffering from organ failure. He made headlines in 2020 after he had to be winched from his flat by crane en route to hospital.
Following his death, his devastated mother, Leisa, 55, said: “He’s probably had about eight lives and I thought the doctors would be able to save him again, but sadly it wasn’t possible.”
Jason, from Camberley, Surrey, weighed 50 stone - he inherited the title of UK’s heaviest man from Carl Thompson, who also died at the age of 33 back in 2015.
Carl weighed 65 stone when he died - after the death of his mother caused his eating to spiral out of control, eventually causing him to lose his life.
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Carl Thompson was interviewed at his bedside on This Morning in May 2015 (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)He was already an ominous 30 stone when his mum Elaine Hoyle died of a brain tumour in 2012. In an attempt to deal with his grief, he turned to junk food, the Daily Star reports. He was never able to recover from her loss and he more than doubled his weight before his untimely death.
But the seeds of Carl’s problem lay in his past when even as a small child he would raid the fridge at night. As an adult, his breakfast was made up of four sausages, five fried eggs, fried bread, mushrooms, and a bowl of cereal.
For lunch, he had pasta, chips, bacon, pork pies, crisps, pasties, sandwiches and chocolate. And for dinner he forked out on either a Chinese or Indian takeaway.
He spent a whopping £22,000 on takeaways in his final six years, becoming bedbound at his flat in Dover, Kent, where he consumed 10,000 calories a day. Described as a “gentle giant”, he forked out £200 a week on takeaways and online shops and gave fast food outlets a key to his home so they could deliver straight to his bed.
TV producers displayed what Carl ate in one day during the show (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)Appearing on a Channel 5 Supersized documentary just weeks before he died, he promised to turn his life around so he could lead a normal life. He told filmmakers: “I want to walk around my flat and get to my bed and get to the toilet and get to the bathroom first. That’s my first goal. The second goal is to get around this flat with no problem whatsoever.
“When I finally get stronger and stronger, I can do that. Then I’ll have no problems whatsoever. I’ll go from using a zimmer frame and crutches for the small things but once I’m off the zimmer frame and more confident with the crutches, then I can do anything that I can’t do because I’m fat.”
He described wanting to lose the weight in order to play in the park with his nephew, who was just one year old at the time. Carl said he “loved him to bits” and was determined to see him grow up, get married, and have kids of his own.
But sadly for Carl, it was not to be, and he was found dead at his home in June 2015 shortly after ordering crumble and ice cream. A month earlier he had begged for support in losing weight during a live interview on This Morning where he said he feared getting a gastric band.
In the interview, conducted at Carl’s bedside, the presenter explained that he was unable to put clothes on and he had not left his home in over a year. He struggled with breathing during the discussion, but he told viewers he had been cutting down on his binge eating habits.
And making a desperate public appeal, he added: “Any professional opinion or other knowledge would be great. I’ve had a lot of that coming in anyway but the more the better. I could die, that’s the bottom line if I keep going the way I do. Because of what I eat I’m missing out on everything in life.”
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He explained that he wanted to speak to a dietician and a psychiatrist to help shift the pounds, fearing that a gastric band would be too dangerous. Doctors had warned him that he needed to lose 70% of his body weight to avoid an early death.
At the time of the interview, Carl was on incapacity benefits and he required NHS workers to bathe him and cook for him. But despite his desire to get better, Carl’s pledge to lose weight came too late.
After his death, the owner of nearby Q Pizza, Merdad Mohebbi, told The Sun: “I can’t believe it. He had cut right down on what he was eating. He was only ordering one or two things a day. When I took the order he seemed happy enough. He was talking about going to the hospital and they were going to do tests on him. He was full of life.”
Another tribute added: “I have just seen that Carl Thomspon has sadly died. I’ve known Carl many years and (he) was a very good friend of mine when I lived in Dover. I used to play pool and have a few pints with him when he was mobile. I can’t believe it, so tragic.”
His neighbour Ronald Williams also said it took emergency services “several hours” to remove the body and Lyn Garret wrote on Twitter: “RIP UK Heaviest man Carl Thompson. Gentle Giant. Dover is in shock.”
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