With eight men and an extra large stretcher needed to move him, he hasn’t been able to leave his house in ten years. .
The 42-year-old heavyweight, from Harlesden, north-west London, is believed to have taken the fattest man title from a 1,260 Mexican called Manuel Urbe, who has gone on a diet and is now a lighter 450 lbs.
Keith, who has not had a girlfriend for 20 years, began binge eating after his mother died when he was a teenager. Now he cannot find clothes to fit him and is so fat he is forced to lie in bed every day.
‘I blame myself. It was my fault, I hate what I have done to myself’, the former warehouseman told an English newspaper.
‘My mother died when I was 16 and I didn’t care about anything after that and couldn’t care less what happened to me, I ate anything and everything.’