“Chumlee kind of thought we were gonna be fat guys together forever or something, and once I lost a bunch of weight, Chumlee all of a sudden starts losing weight, too,” Corey recalled. “I’m proud of him, you know? He did it all with diet and exercise, and lost almost 100 pounds.”
When asked on if Chumlee looked as good as he did, though, Corey cracked wise. “Of course not!” he joked. “He’s the sidekick! Let’s not forget that.”
For his part, Chumlee reflected on his weight loss in an interview with People in 2014. “It was time for me to get healthy,” Chumlee told the magazine. “I started at 320 [pounds] and now I’m down to 225. When I first began, I eliminated all processed foods except mustard. Now, ‘everything in moderation’ is my motto.”
Corey, meanwhile, told the magazine that fans had been congratulating him on his weight loss. “They actually say, ‘You look just like that guy from Pawn Stars, but you are a lot skinnier and better looking than him.’ I say, ‘Trust me, if I were going to pretend to be someone, it wouldn’t be that guy from Pawn Stars.’”