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Paul Whitehouse admitted he was not in the same physical shape as he once was.

Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer admitted falling was one of their big worries as older men.

TV stars Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer have returned for another episode of Gone Fishing and in the latest instalment, the pair, who have been very open about personal losses, ventured to Shetland to fish the lochs and the seas for trout and pollock. The weather was extremely blustery, and Paul lost his hat in the water several times.

“Oh! Turning around looking at you, you see!” Paul blamed Bob as his hat flew off into the sea. “The hat monster has got it, because I can’t see it. That was a really quick hat monster, Bob,” he joked.

As the pair went on to laugh about the incident, Paul observed: “This is a tricky old wind, this, isn’t it? I haven’t even had a touch yet, Bob.” The breezy conditions continued to pose challenges for the pair, who admitted it was a “tough” day. “It is tough, but I feel much better now I have got this stick with me,” Paul admitted.

“I’m getting older and more infirm, and last time I went salmon fishing, I fell in. I think I’m just a little bit less steady these days, you know? I mean, they always say don’t go into water you don’t know without a wading stick, so.”

Bob chimed in: “Sometimes you have got to have a sense of adventure, haven’t you? But not at our age. Everything goes downhill after a fall, doesn’t it? It’s a fall that does it for so many people.”

Paul agreed, adding: “I think it takes your confidence away, doesn’t it?” Thankfully, things started to look up from there as Bob managed to locate Paul’s missing hat. Later in the episode, the pair opened up about their youth, with Paul admitting he had been “banned” from going on school trips.

The friends were heating up some water to make a cup of tea as Paul asked Bob: “Did you set fire to much when you were a kid?” Bob went on to recall how he once deliberately put a candle in one of the cupboards during a science lesson at school and left it there.

“Were you ever threatened with expulsion?” Bob asked Paul, to which he replied: “Yeah, I was banned from school trips.” When asked to elaborate, he coyly said: “You don’t need to know.”

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“I think you did something dirty,” Bob speculated. “No, I didn’t really, I just got very drunk,” Paul corrected. “How old were you?” Bob continued to press, but Paul refused to answer at first, saying: “It doesn’t matter.”

Luckily, he didn’t miss out on much, saying that one of the only trips he didn’t get to take was “a trip to the metal box factory”. The friends have been open about mortality throughout the new season and recently paid tribute to a beloved co-star who died – their companion Ted.

During a trip to Norfolk, they raised a glass to the dog. “Good company, he was,” Bob reflected. “He was great, because he certainly didn’t fawn over us, did he?” The conversation then grew more poignant as Bob shared heartfelt words about Ted.

“He were grumpy… he had a very generous heart,” Bob said. “And that’s why we loved him, poor old Teddy,” Paul added as the sombre music continued to play. The Patterdale Terrier mix died in April 2026 at the age of 13.

He was rescued from a dog’s home in Surrey in the Spring of 2013 when he was about six months old and made his first appearance on the popular BBC Two show in season three.

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is on BBC iPlayer, with episodes also airing weekly on Sundays

LOTTIE Tomlinson was seen wiping away tears as she opened up about losing her mum, and how her brother Louis really “stepped up” in a fatherly role.

The two siblings “grew closer” after their beloved mother Johannah Deakin’s death in 2016, aged 43.

Lottie was just 18-years-old when her mother died from leukaemia.

Speaking to her brother’s girlfriend Zara McDermott on her Feel Good Formula podcast with Boots, mum-of-two Lottie, who shares her kids with Lewis Burton, said: “‘It’s really hard having your own kids without your mum.”

Beginning to well up, she said: “(I’m) Not gonna get upset. Literally said to myself, ‘Don’t cry’.

“But yeah, I think my sisters have been a big one, we’ve all sort of come together and tried to look after each other and it makes me feel closer to her in a way because obviously I know how much being a mum meant to her.

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“And it means so much to us, I think, because of how she brought us up with being so maternal and I think that’s why we all are how we are because of her but yeah, it’s hard.”

Speaking about how her big brother Louis really stepped up, she added how he took her on tour with him, and supported her.

“I appreciate now that he even let me come on the tour,” Lottie said.

“But it was actually really nice in the end because he sort of stepped into a real fatherly role on that tour, and he didn’t let me get away with anything.

“I think it gave us a really strong bond that you sort of can’t explain because we went through that together.

“We’re so close now, and I think it is because of those few years. Me being there with him, I think in the end he liked having me there for the support.

“And he was sort of fathering me a bit, but I was almost mothering him a bit as well. So I would pull him up on stuff if he was acting a certain way and it sort of worked both ways, which was nice.”

Lottie’s late mother Johannah had seven children, including Louis and Lottie.

But just three years after their mum’s death, the siblings lost sister Félicité Tomlinson, following an accidental overdose, after she took a fatal concoction of anti-anxiety medication, cocaine and painkillers.