{"id":28137,"date":"2020-09-30T03:10:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=28137"},"modified":"2020-10-01T03:12:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:12:25","slug":"jim-parsons-says-he-and-todd-spiewak-had-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=28137","title":{"rendered":"Jim Parsons says he and Todd Spiewak had COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Big Bang Theory&#8221; star Jim Parsons has revealed that he and his husband, producer Todd Spiewak, had contracted the coronavirus in the middle of March.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on &#8220;The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon&#8221;, the actor said their experience &#8220;defied the descriptions&#8221; of the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Todd and I both had it early on. It was like&#8230; middle of March. We didn&#8217;t know what it was. We thought we had colds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then it seemed less likely, and then finally we lost our sense of smell and taste. It defied the descriptions for me. I didn&#8217;t realise how completely taste and smell could be gone,&#8221; Parsons told Fallon.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood actor said losing two senses under lockdown when there is &#8220;nothing to do but eat&#8221; resulted in &#8220;a lot of wasted calories&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Parsons, 47, said he took up painting and writing to distract his mind in quarantine but was unable to commit to anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if the truth is, &#8216;Well, you&#8217;re just an actor and that&#8217;s what you do and that&#8217;s what you should do,&#8217; or if it&#8217;s just I really don&#8217;t have the see-through stick-to-itness for anything. It&#8217;s sort of embarrassing but, you know, here I am,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The actor will next be seen in the upcoming Netflix film &#8220;The Boys in the Band&#8221;, which starts streaming from Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Big Bang Theory&#8221; star Jim Parsons has revealed that he and his husband, producer Todd Spiewak, had contracted the coronavirus in the middle of March. During an appearance on &#8220;The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon&#8221;, the actor said their experience &#8220;defied the descriptions&#8221; of the COVID-19 virus. &#8220;Todd and I both had it early on. It was like&#8230; middle of March. We didn&#8217;t know what it was. We thought we had colds. &#8220;And then it seemed less likely, and then finally we lost our sense of smell and taste.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28141,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137\/revisions\/28141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}