Alan Carr thought he was grieving for dog but he had life-threatening condition

24 September 2023 , 21:16

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Alan Carr with his red setter dog Bev (Image: Internet Unknown)

Alan Carr ’s dog could see ghosts, and alerted the comic and his mum to a presence living in their home...

It even wandered through the house’s old, boarded-up doorways. Well, they were messing with a ouija board at the time, so they probably should have expected a few spectres.

“He would see someone walk from the dining room into a kitchen, where a door used to be,” says the spooked comic, adding that the canine medium would then growl at their phantom guest. Alan also said the death of red setter Bev last year hit him so hard, he didn’t notice he had contracted salmonella poisoning, as he assumed his symptoms were grief.

He said: “When Bev went I’ve never known grief like it. There was a salmonella out­­break, and when she was put down I had a chicken sandwich the same day. I rang my mum and I said: ‘Bev’s gone, and I don’t feel well.’ And she said: ‘You’re grieving, people grieve in different ways.’”

Alan soon realised the more unfortunate symptoms of his food poisoning were slightly different to his grief, while filming an Agatha Christie documentary dressed as Poirot. “It was touch and go,” he recalls. “I was crying.”

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Chatting to Seann Walsh and Jack Dee on their Oh My Dog! podcast, he added: “I am desperate to get a dog, my life is empty. It breaks my heart.”

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