The Chase's Paul Sinha fears 'time is running out' on comedy career

The Chase star Paul Sinha – who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's – has revealed he fears “time is running out” on his comedy career.

The comedian and quizzer, who is known as The Sinnerman on the ITV game show, announced in 2019 that he had been diagnosed with the disease at the age of 49.

Speaking about his comedy shows on the RHLSTP podcast, he said he didn’t know how much time he had left performing and that it was important “to end your career with no regrets”.

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“Without wishing to sound bleak, my time is running out," he said.

"I don't know to what degree my time is running out," he went on.

"It could be five years, it could be 10 years for all I know.

"I just know that my time is running out."

The TV star previously shared that when he was first told that he had Parkinson’s there was some relief in the diagnosis, and that he could then "own it".

He explained to 5 News in 2021 that his first symptom has been some stiffness and that getting diagnosed took a little while.

Sinha went on: “When you start walking with a limp, you know that something’s wrong and it was more of a sense of relief of, ‘Now that I know what it is, I can sort of own it’.”

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According to the NHS website, Parkinson’s is a condition in which parts of the brain become progressively damaged over many years.

Symptoms include involuntary shaking of particular parts of the body, slow movement and stiff and inflexible muscles.

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