The Chase’s Mark Labbett shows off his slimmed down frame after 10 stone weight-loss on boating day out with girlfriend Hayley Palmer

Mark Labbett and girlfriend Hayley Palmer looked smitten as they enjoyed a day out at the Southampton International Boat Show at Mayflower Park on Sunday.

The Chaser, 58, who is known as ‘The Beast’ on the ITV show, has been dating Hayley for five months after they met at the National Television Awards last year.

He looked slimmer than ever after losing a whopping 10 stone and dropping from a 5XL to a 2XL shirt size in the past year.

Wearing an all-black ensemble, Mark opted for a plain T-shirt, matching jeans and a matching zip-up hoodie.

Hayley, 41, complemented him in another all-black look, wearing a T-shirt and skin-tight leather leggings with a leather jacket.

Mark shared a photo of them on his Instagram and joked that the pair were dressed as Danny and Sandy from Grease.

He wrote: ‘Summer Loving 🙂 @hayleypalmer_presenter rocks her Sandy vibe, my Danny Zuko is less convincing.

‘Thank you @sotonboatshow for a great day out, even though Hayley won the fishing challenge (she beat everyone) :)’.

Hayley also took to her own Instagram to share a glimpse of their fun day out with her followers.

She filmed the couple taking a ride on a speedboat and joked: “I think @markthebeastlabbett is enjoying the boat ride a little too much.”

The pair appeared on Loose Women last month, where Mark revealed the real-life way he managed to lose weight and once again denied having a gastric band fitted.

He said: ‘I think one of the positives of having what may or may not have been Covid a few times is that I just lost my appetite.

‘My appetite is not what it used to be. Have one of your doctors check me for a gastric band scar. They won’t find it!’

The star previously revealed The sun that although he was tempted to go under the knife, he instead decided to get fit and healthy the old-fashioned way.

He said: ‘I’m not really trying to diet, I’m just sensible. People say you had a gastric band or gastric band, and I didn’t.

‘I was tempted by the gastric band, but a good friend of mine who is a GP said my problem is sugar, that I have a sweet tooth.

‘A gastric band doesn’t make sense for me because sugar metabolizes quite quickly, so I did it the old-fashioned way by eating less and trying to go to the gym.

A gastric band is a band placed around the stomach, creating a small pouch at the top that requires less food to fill.

He also revealed how he shed the pounds, saying he is “eating less and drinking more” and focusing on his health.

Mark said he had completely changed his diet as he battled diabetes and said this played a role in his weight loss.

‘I think the diabetes has helped because I eat a lot less. “I drink a lot more fluids,” he said of his weight loss.”

The couple also opened up about their relationship, with Hayley admitting: ‘I don’t watch The Chase, no offense but I’m never home at 5pm.

‘I came to see Beat The Chasers and he got everything right and I thought, “Wow, that’s really sexy”.’

Speaking about their long-distance relationship, Mark said: ‘We consult our diaries a lot, so for example we’ve both worked out that we’ll be in Southampton for a few nights next month, so we’ve arranged a few dates while we were down there.’

Hayley added: “I think sometimes it’s healthy. When you meet someone it’s too much too soon, but we’re both really looking forward to seeing each other again in a few weeks.’

It was recently revealed that Mark was dating the TV presenter, 41, after splitting from wife Katie in 2020.

Sources claim the TV star wooed the GB News presenter on a series of dates after being friends ‘for a while’.

Earlier in July, Mark opened up about his blossoming new relationship with his new girlfriend, when he admitted the relationship has had challenges due to the distances between them.

Mark lives in Rotherham, while Hayley lives in London.

But despite having only been on a handful of dates since they first met in October 2022, he said of their recent time together in LA: “We actually got along really well.”

Speaking to The Sun, Mark explained how he first met his current girlfriend when they were introduced at the National Television Awards at Wembley’s OVO Arena in October.

Hayley recalled how on the night she was impressed by The Beast’s Toby Carvery Gold Card and jokingly tried to steal it from him.

Mark revealed it was Hayley who then asked him out on their first date, when she invited him to the Dirty Dancing The Musical press night at the end of January.

At the end of their night out at the theatre, the TV personality said he was ‘quite impressed’ by Hayley but ‘couldn’t get a sense’ of whether she felt the same about him.

The Chase star decided to ‘take refuge in honesty’ and told the presenter: ‘I really like you’, before asking her if there was any chance of a second date.

Now, five months after their first date, Mark confessed that long distance can make things difficult, saying: “We’ve been dating for like five, six months, but we’ve only been on a few dates because we’re so be 150 years old. miles away.

“We pull out diaries and say, ”When are we going to be physically in the same location?”. That’s why LA was so good. We were able to spend some quality time together and we actually got along really well.”

In 2020, Mark revealed that he and Katie had split after getting married in 2014, with the parents having a six-year-old son.

In a candid interview at the time, Mark admitted that “it’s better for us to go our separate ways,” after the couple’s attempts at an open marriage failed.

He told The Sun: ‘There was never any cheating on Katie’s part, but it’s gotten to the point now where I realize it’s better for us to go our separate ways and remain friendly.’

While Katie added: ‘I just want everyone to know what’s what and for us all to be happy.’