CHOCOLATE taster Angus Kennedy has been forced to quit his £30,000 dream job - or face a heart attack.

Doctors warned the 47-year-old – who has piled on 12.7kg (2st) eating 900g (2lb) of sweets a day since landing the role in 2010 – his cholesterol level was ‘dangerously high’.
Mr Kennedy, of Maidstone, Kent, said: ‘I’ll really miss being Willy Wonka. Eating chocolate for a living really was the dream job. I was given a Golden Ticket to sample the world’s craziest, tastiest new goodies and review them in the magazine. The only problem with eating chocolate from 9 to 5, of course, is the predictable weight gain and high cholesterol. In the last couple of years, I’ve put on some considerable weight and a recent check-up showed my arteries were far from fighting fit.'
Mr Kennedy has now started exercising in order to get back to a healthy weight and has also begun a new career as an author, penning a book about delivering his wife's baby.                                                –Metro