British TV presenter Paul O'Grady is convinced he's been battling coronavirus while in self-isolation.
The 64-year-old had stepped down from his BBC Radio 2 show to protect himself from the deadly virus as he suffers from heart problems.
Speaking to fellow presenter Gaby Roslin, the For The Love of Dogs host said he hasn't been tested, but believes he has Covid-19 and has been self-medicating with a vinegar concoction of his own creation.
"I’m alright now," he said. "Last week I had flu like symptoms. I didn’t have the cough bad, I certainly didn’t have the temperature or anything like that so I just got on with it.
"That was when the heating had gone so it was minus two down here and freezing and I thought someone had got it in for me. I’m fine now."
When asked if he thinks he had covid-19, he said: "Most definitely. That’s knocking about, but there’s also flus and seasonal colds going about so you’ve got to tell yourself and learn the difference.
"The coronavirus - you’d know if you caught that. I lay on the couch with the fire on and the dogs on top of me moaning.
"When you are lying on the couch dying or you think you are. It was sheer exhaustion like [UK radio and TV presenter] Chris Evans had too."
O’Grady then decided to create his own non-medicinal treatment for the virus, which contains vinegar, garlic and several herbs.
"There’s a concoction – four thieves vinegar – and I made it up," he said.
"In France during the plague in the 1600s, four thieves were going around and they were knocking off everybody’s houses and robbing the dead.
"So when they were finally sentenced to be burned at the stake the magistrate said 'If you tell us how you’ve managed to survive not getting the plague I’ll lower the sentence to hanging' - which was big of him.
"Basically this is the recipe, which is cider vinegar with as many cloves of garlic in it as you can take and four different kinds of herbs to represent the four thieves."
He added: "I’ve got a bit of rosemary, parsley, and lemon grass, and bay leaf and leave it to steep and just have a tiny little bit every day. I’m having it at the moment, oh God yeah."
