AceShowbiz - Jack Whitehall was grateful to be given a body double for his TV show "The Afterparty" after failing to get in shape. The comedian/actor has opened up his character in the Apple TV Plus series was described as having a six-pack but, despite all his best efforts, Jack was unable to sculpt his abs into shape in time due to a beer and pasta binge in Italy shortly before the shoot started.

"I've never committed to getting a six-pack before for a role, but I thought, 'I'm really going to try hard to get fit.' And then I booked this gig [a beer promotional campaign in Italy] before I went out there, which was basically a week of beer and pasta," he explained in an interview with Heat magazine.

"I don't know about six-packs but I'm pretty certain beer and pasta are not what you're advised to eat. In my mind, I just called it a cheat week, but that did become the cheat week of all cheat weeks - eating pasta every day. So when I arrived in LA , I was not in the shape that I intended."

However, Jack's lack of abs wasn't a problem for show bosses as they just called in a body double to stand in for him. Jack added, "It was fine, because they were like, 'We can just hire a double who's got a six pack.' I think that's the takeaway here, you can just hire someone else with the physique you want, and then you can 'live Italian.' "