Richard Gadd's Muscle Transformation for BBC's Half Man

0:00It's April 26, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Entertainment and Celebrity News today. AI-powered and star driven. Richard Gatt is straight up transformed for his new BBC series Half-Man, which dropped last Friday. The guy who played got-comedy in Donnie and Baby Raindeer now rocks a massive, bearded, muscle-bound look as Ruben, a raging alpha-type. It's night and day from when he sheds serious weight two years back to match his younger self in that stalker story. Half-Man tracks the wild bond between teen buddies, Nile, played by Jamie Bell, and Gads Ruben, spanning decades of explosive ups and downs. Gatt went all in, hitting the gym six days a week with a trainer and nutritionist, piling on 3.5 stone of pure power. He calls it a lead to embody peak masculinity after his skinny face. Baby Raindeer exploded into a Netflix phenomenon last April, racking up over 250 million views, three BAFTAs, two Golden Globes, and six Emmys.

1:02It boosted referrals to abuse and stalking charities by over 50 percent, but sparked backlash too, with the real-life stalker suing Netflix for one. $170 million over the true story claims that legal mess drags on while Gads star keeps rising. Latest filing show his company assets hitting 2,462,000 pounds, shareholder funds more than doubling to 1 million, $875,000. He's been promoting half-man hard in New York and LA, but stays low-key at his 500,000-pound London flat, barely spotted by neighbors. A mid-filming in Glasgow, Gads insists half-man is pure fiction, miles from his quiet Scottish upbringing, letting him flex new creative muscles beyond the personal trauma.