Miranda Hart has admitted that she has to ‘live one day at a time’ amid her three-decade long battle with Lyme disease.
The comedian, 52, had been off the nation’s screens for four years when she revealed her illness and surprise wedding joy as she launched her autobiography last year.
And on Tuesday she took to Instagram with an update on her condition as she teased a ‘new literary offering’ that is coming later this week.
She said in her clip: ‘Hello to you. Well I have news…’
She then started humming the Strictly Come Dancing theme tune before quickly adding: ‘No I’m joking, that was a joke.. or was that a double bluff, no really it was a joke I shouldn’t have said that…
‘The menopausal mounds of this body is not ready for any sort of dancefloor let alone one on national television – no one is ready for that.
Miranda Hart has admitted that she has to ‘live one day at a time’ amid her three-decade long battle with Lyme disease
The comedian, 52, had been off the nation’s screens for four years when she revealed her illness and surprise wedding joy as she launched her autobiography last year
‘No the news is that I am sharing some news on Thursday so this is the pre news news. This time last year I was rather anxiously telling people I had written a book about suffering from Lyme disease and other delightful associated conditions.
‘I was keeping it a secret that I had just got married as it was a story in said book. I am still completely every day amazed and blown away that people have been blown away by the book.
‘That’s another reason I couldn’t do Strictly as the whole Lyme disease and chronic illness if you are a fellow sufferer then you will know that it really is living one day at time.
‘It would be too soon the dancing every day for three months. I’ll do it when I’m 60 I’ve decided. Anyway the news is coming on Thursday, this is the pre news news.’
She penned in the caption of her post: ‘News coming on Thursday about a new little literary offering…. Nothing too exciting, but my remit for it was ‘cosy’. And I find cosy exciting….’
Back in June she revealed her hopes to return to creating comedy – ten years after her hit show last aired.
She has previously said that she ‘missed laughter’ in her time away from TV, adding that she was ‘really keen to get back to some silliness now’.
But it now seems that she is finally ready to get back to the drawing board – after confessing her hopes to actor Tim Key after a screening of his new film The Ballad of Wallis Island.
And on Tuesday she took to Instagram with an update on her condition as she teased a ‘new literary offering’ that is coming later this week
She then started humming the Strictly Come Dancing theme tune before quickly adding: ‘No I’m joking, that was a joke.. or was that a double bluff…’
She has previously said that she ‘missed laughter’ in her time away from TV, adding that she was ‘really keen to get back to some silliness now'(seen on the show with Sarah Hadland)
‘Miranda Hart came and she said: ‘That’s very freeing. I’d like to make something again,” the Alan Partridge star told the Elis James and John Robins show.
James, joking that the film had been so good it had forced him to give up on his writing dreams, responded: ‘You’ve lost James and won Hart.’
Key, 48, replied: ‘It’s swings and roundabouts. We’ve turned you off and Miranda back on.’
It came as the star shared a cryptic social media post, a quote from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
It said that ‘when you let go of the frantic search for validation, you find yourself exactly where you are meant to be, with the tools you need to go forward. It is from this place of quiet assurance that the most beautiful things emerge.’
Miranda has kept a low-profile in recent years. The comedian rose to fame with her self-titled sitcom series in 2009 and went on to star in Call The Midwife as Chummy from 2012 until 2015.
In 2017 it was revealed Miranda would not be returning to Call The Midwife, citing a busy work schedule as her reason.
But she later revealed during an stand-up gig in London that she had been suffering from ‘ill’ health
She was last seen in 2020’s film adaptation of Jane Austin, where she played ‘harmless chatterbox’ Miss Bates.
Meanwhile, a 10th anniversary special of Miranda, filmed at the London Palladium in 2019 and described by Hart as ‘a party (not a new episode)’, also aired in 2020.
It took medics 33 years to discover Miranda had been battling with the bacterial infection Lyme disease, after initially mislabeling her as being agoraphobic – an anxiety disorder characterised by symptoms of anxiety in situations.
She recalled running out a doctor’s appointment in floods of tears after they told her she was ‘TATT’ – ‘Tired All The Time’ and said: ‘I just don’t know what to do with you.’
The comic finally received the diagnosis in lockdown and believes she contracted Lyme disease when she 14 after battling nasty flu-like symptoms in Virginia.
The star then shared that she was also diagnosed with ME, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome.
In an extract from her book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You, which she shared in her monthly newsletter, Miranda offered an insight into the height of her health struggles while doctors failed to find the cause of her symptoms.
The comedian, who also shared in her book she had married surveyor Richard Fairs, admitted that she felt increasingly ‘alone’ as it no one seemed to understand the height of her struggles.
Miranda admitted that before meeting Richard, she had ‘given up’ on the idea of ever tying the knot.
She said: ‘It makes me think of the recent joy of getting married, which I had sort of given up on the possibility of, and also the young me dreaming. I’ve always been a dreamer. It’s very emotional.’
But she admitted she immediately ‘fell in love’ with Richard ‘there and then,’ just moments after they first met in real life.
Miranda admitted that before meeting Richard, she had ‘given up’ on the idea of ever tying the knot
MailOnline revealed in October that Miranda and Richard had exchanged vows last July at a 1,000-year-old church in the picturesque Hampshire village of Hambledon, attended only by a handful of family and close friends, all of whom were sworn to secrecy.
‘Miranda Hart did get married in St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church,’ the vicar of the 11th century church, Reverend Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Quinn said.
‘But I am not going to discuss anything about it because Miranda has released everything she wants to be known about her marriage and her wedding in her book. And I am not going to go against her wishes.’
Renowned as one of the most beautiful villages in the South Downs National Park, Hambledon has become the base of Miranda’s close-knit family.
Her parents, retired Royal Navy Commander David Hart Dyke, and mother Diana, bought a beautiful mansion there seven years ago, and later her sister Alice, to whom she is extremely close, moved in next door.
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