sagansense:Sir David Attenborough Reveals He’s Had A Pacemaker FittedThe 87-year-old filmmaker admit

sagansense:Sir David Attenborough Reveals He’s Had A Pacemaker FittedThe 87-year-old filmmaker admitted that he has suffered with some minor heart trouble, which threatened his career and therefore he decided to have the medical device fitted.Speaking during an interview on The Jonathan Ross Show, Sir David explained: “I had a funny five minutes. No more than that. I had to go to Australia and the insurance said they wouldn’t insure me to go on a long flight unless I had something to monitor my heart to make sure it didn’t do funny things. So they give you this thing, it’s called a pacemaker. And all it does, if your heart suddenly decides it’s going to skip a beat or something, it kicks in. And if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. And I don’t think it has.”The naturalist revealed that the health scare hasn’t stopped him from travelling as he’s just come back from Qatar and before that was in Rome and is even planning to head off to Borneo.However, one thing that it has been affected is Sir David’s ability to get up a tree.“I’m not as good at climbing trees as I was, but I’ve been up in a tree recently,” he said.“We’re doing a film in 3D about how flight has evolved in animals. I wrote the script and I said I wanted to appear in a hand-glider and that I would be hand-gliding and then this thing with a thirty foot wingspan would come from behind. I thought that would be a good sequence to end with but the insurance people wouldn’t do it. So I eventually had to do it in a glider.”The father-of-two, who boasts a career that spans 60 years, is best-known for his love of animals and nature but another confession which he made on the ITV1 show, is that he doesn’t like rats.“I think it’s a mark of weakness on my part, but I don’t actually like rats,” he admitted to Jonathan. “I’ve got to be honest, I really don’t like rats. I’ve had rats run over my face when I’m asleep, and I don’t care for rats. I was sitting on the, you know [toilet], and I’ve had a rat come up.”When asked by the chat show host how he reacts when he sees one, Sir David continued: “Throw a boot at it!”The broadcaster also brought some ancient animals with him to show Jonathan and placed them on his desk.The animals’ tanks were wrapped as Christmas presents which Jonathan unwrapped, unveiling two skinks, then a scorpion and then a bird-eating spider.Jonathan took the skinks out of the box and let them walk on his desk. He also held one, which peed on his hand and desk.“They really don’t do much,” Sir David said of them. “I’ll tell you a really, really touching thing about them. They form pairs and they stay together, once they have formed a pair, for life. The reason we know, the person who proved it saw a skink…that was sitting by one that had been squashed by a car and it stayed there for days. They were one of a pair. One of which had been killed.”When he unveiled the scorpion, Jonathan decided he wanted to hold it so sir David decided to explain the risks to him.“Even if he stung you, it wouldn’t kill you,” he told him. “If you interfered with him at the front, he would bring that forward and sting you,” to which Jonathan replied: “Can I pick this up?”“Well, you can if you like. Personally, I would be careful. A sting is a sting,” he answered.The full interview can be seen on The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday December 28 at 9pm on ITV1.Source: Express.Co.UK -- source link

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