Britain's heaviest man Carl Thompson died at his Dover flat just weeks after being filmed for a documentary by Channel 5.

In the programme due to air this week, Carl discussed his addiction to food - and revealed he had even given staff at his local takeaway a key to his home so they could bring food to his bed.

He said he often ate 10,000 calories a day, and estimated he had spent £22,000 on takeaways in the past six years.

In the documentary, Carl, who was 65 stone when he died, said: “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.

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"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.

"Then I can finally walk around my flat.”

In a conversation with a specialist doctor, an expert in nutrition, Carl talked about his nephew, and how he wanted to see him grow up.

He said: “I love him to bits. I want to see him grow up, get married, have kids of his own. Play football with him. You know... go to the park with him.”

Carl agreed to be filmed for Channel 5’s Supersized season, a six-part series looking at various aspects of obesity.

When he died, he was bedbound at his flat in Dofras Place, off Maison Dieu Road.

His weight had nearly doubled in the past three years, after the death of his mother.

65 Stone and Trapped in My House will be broadcast on Thursday at 9pm on Channel 5.

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