Jimmy Carr says he was 'close to death' while battling infection

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Jimmy Carr jokes that host of BBC's I Can See Your Voice, Paddy McGuinness, is going through a mid-life crisis.

Jimmy Carr fell seriously ill when he was a toddler Jimmy Carr said he ‘nearly didn’t make it’ when he was diagnosed with meningitis as a child. The comedian, 51, said he was ‘close to death’ while being treated in hospital in Ireland when he was still a toddler. ‘The doctor sort of went, “It’s going to be very painful”,’ Jimmy recalled of fighting the life-threatening infection aged three. However, he said the experience of surviving the illness made him ‘appreciate’ life.

’ ‘And I was ravaged by sharks. That would be a way to go.’ Jimmy added that he had already had a close encounter with a reef shark after one ‘flipped around’ towards him while he was swimming with a friend in Key West. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next He recounted: ‘We’d been swimming with these small sharks all day and we slightly misjudged the size of this thing.

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