LONDON (AFP) — London mayor Boris Johnson vowed Tuesday to exercise more, after voicing shock at how fat he was as portrayed by a new waxwork model.
"It's only when you see yourself in 3D res (three dimensions) you realise just how fat you are. I have got to get out and start jogging more," he said, standing next to his wax lookalike at Madame Tussauds in London.
"I have to lose some weight. But it is a brilliant job they have done. It is an amazing, eerie, lifelike, spooky version of myself," he added.
Johnson, a colourful former journalist who ousted "Red Ken" Livingstone in London's City Hall a year ago, also had a dig at the plight of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour government.
Brown is struggling against polls suggesting the opposition Conservatives will win a general election expected by next June.
"I think it is a bit like a cricket match now: we know the position is very difficult for them, probably unrecoverable, but we have to play on for the rest of the fifth day," said Johnson, a Tory MP before being elected mayor.
"Which means a long, weary period for politics," he added.
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