Brian Blessed has "every intention" of going into space. The 87-year-old actor is proud to have undergone cosmonaut training in Russia and is still awaiting a call to get blasted off out of the earth. Discussing a typical day, he told the Sunday Times magazine: "For lunch I'll have a cheese omelette and more yoghurts, then it'll be back into my gymnasium to lift some heavy weights.
"Then I'll go to my shed, where I might have invited a sporting or scientific champion over to have a chat. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. "I had Stephen Hawking in there once and he said to me, "They want to put me into space, Brian.
What do you think?" And I replied, "Well, Stephen, you may as well f***ing go!" "I have every intention of going to space too. I'm the oldest person to have trained at Moscow's Star City to become a cosmonaut. The call could come any day.
" Despite his advancing years, the Flash Gordon actor is "abnormally fit" and insisted he feels "ageless". He said: "I'm always in training for something, whether it's another expedition to the magnetic North Pole or Everest, and I bench-press 300lb. I'm a black belt in judo and I've always had huge strength.
"I'm abnormally fit and abnormally cheerful. "What I find most intolerable is when people make a pact with old age. Don't do it.
I feel ageless." Blessed's wife Hildegarde Neil died in 2023 and the screen legend - who has daughter Catherine from his first marriage and Rosalin.
