The Chase star Paul ‘The Sinnerman’ Sinha makes candid confession about when he plans to quit the ITV quiz show: ‘I don’t want to be a burden’

The Chase star Paul ‘The Sinnerman’ Sinha has revealed when he plans to quit the popular ITV quiz show.

The TV quizmaster, 54, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2019 and has regularly opened up about living with the condition.

But speaking to the Daily Star on Saturday, Paul revealed that he would leave the show if the disease began to affect his abilities – as he admitted he wouldn’t want to ‘be a burden’. 

‘At the moment my Parkinson’s doesn’t affect how I am on the show – it doesn’t affect how I can answer questions,’ he said.

‘If it ever did, I’d point it out to the producers. I know that one day that point will come, and I don’t want to be a burden on the show.’

The Chase star Paul ‘The Sinnerman’ Sinha revealed when he plans to quit the popular ITV quiz show to the Daily Star on Saturday

The TV quizmaster, 54, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2019 and has regularly opened up about living with the condition

Paul revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s in May 2019. The comedian and quiz expert gave a health update via his Twitter page, vowing to ‘fight with every breath I have’. 

Expanding further in an impassioned blog post, the television personality said he was initially ‘in shock’, but ‘feels far more prepared for the new challenges ahead’ now he has a treatment plan in place. 

Displaying he trademark humour, he also joked that a Dancing On Ice appearance is now ‘out of the question’, before thanking his family and fiancé for their support in the wake of his diagnosis. 

Paul – who has been the fourth chaser, known as ‘The Smiling Assassin’, since 2011 – admitted at the time that it had ‘been a really, really tough two weeks’ since he got the diagnosis.

But he also said that now he had a treatment plan in place he felt ‘prepared for the new challenges ahead’. 

Parkinson’s is a condition in which parts of the brain become progressively damaged.

The three main symptoms are: involuntary shaking (tremor), slow movement, stiff and inflexible muscles. As the condition progresses, the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease can get worse.

Just seven months after his diagnosis, Paul wed his long term partner Oliver Levy.

Paul revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s in May 2019. The comedian and quiz expert gave a health update via his Twitter page, vowing to ‘fight with every breath I have’

Just seven months after his diagnosis, Paul wed his long term partner Oliver Levy 

In June of this year, Paul said that his mother discovered he was gay after a friend drunkenly outed him at a house party. 

He originally wanted to break the news of his sexuality gently, but was robbed of the opportunity thanks to a cruel prank carried out at his expense. 

Appearing on an edition of Loose Women, he said: ‘Coming out to my mum was an interesting process. 

‘Somebody at a house party we were hosting had a few too many drinks, rang up my number and went your son is gay and put the phone down.’ 

‘It was not how I wanted her to find out, I thought it’d be more organic and sweet. It was difficult to have the agency of a decision taken away from you’ (pictured: Sinha’s parents) 

He added: ‘It was not how I wanted her to find out, I thought it’d be more organic and sweet. It was difficult to have the agency of a decision taken away from you.

Paul also admitted he still doesn’t know who made the call. 

He joked: ‘We going to have a poll, I’ll give you list of all the  friends it cold have been.’