Underwood Survived On Liquid Diet To Shed Weight

BLAIR UNDERWOOD embarked on an extreme liquid diet to help him shed weight for new U.S. TV thriller THE EVENT, because he was so unhappy with his full figure in the pilot episode.

The L.A. Law star plays the President of the United States in the action series, which debuted in September (10) - but he couldn’t ignore his bulging belly when he reviewed the first episode earlier this year (10).

He underwent the gruelling Master Cleanse for “weeks” to get back in shape - which meant restricting his intake to nothing more than a mixture of lemon water, maple syrup and cayenne pepper.

And now Underwood’s finally feeling camera ready.

He says, “A couple months ago I was 20 pounds heavier. This show I’m doing now, The Event, we did the pilot. There’s five months between (shooting) the first episode and the second episode. I saw the pilot and I go, ‘Oh, no. Oh, no brother, you need to lose some weight!’”