This Lemon doesn’t need to squeeze — Don Lemon is sliding into slimmer slacks these days.
We hear that the former CNN anchor has been telling pals he’s dropped 30 pounds — and he was showing off his newly trimmed physique in St. Barts during Thanksgiving, as well as at a snazzy party over the weekend.
Some say that Lemon has told pals his weight loss is thanks to Ozempic, but another source acknowledged he has been on a health kick for a while.
A rep for the anchor was dismissive of the Ozempic claim and didn’t dignify a response.
Lemon posted shirtless pics from his vacay last month with fiancé Tim Malone featuring the caption, “Our traditional St. Barths Thanksgiving/Friendsgiving trip.”
The ex-morning show host was then spotted back in NYC on Friday at a birthday party for “Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell at the home of skin care guru Peter Thomas Roth.
A spy told us, “Don was showing off his new slim figure. He’s lost 25 to 30 pounds. Don told friends he’d lost 30 pounds . . . People walked right by him and it was only when he said, ‘Hello,’ did people realize who he was.”
The source added: “He had to go up to people and introduce himself.”
Another source said that Lemon, 57, was telling guests at the party he was on the wonder weight loss drug Ozempic — but they said it was unclear if he was joking.
But a friend of Lemon’s told us he’s just been healthy and happy.
The former “CNN This Morning” co-host previously was “stunned” when he was fired in April by then-CEO Chris Licht, who wound up being ousted himself months later.
Licht also had his own dramatic weight loss, which sources had told us was helped by Ozempic.
Lemon said at the time, “After 17 years at CNN I would have thought someone in management would have the decency to tell me directly… At no time was I ever given any indication that I would…
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