The former Newsnight host told the Sunday Times Magazine he kept falling and hurting himself and would end up with cuts, bruises, and black eyes and “blood everywhere.”
He explained: “I kept falling over, I blamed the dog getting under my feet, but after the last time I went down, straight on my face, it was a real mess.
“I thought, ‘This isn’t right,’ the doctors said, ‘You’ve got Parkinson’s’ it had never occurred to me. I thought, ‘Parkinson’s what?’,” he added.
Paxman has presented University Challenge since 1994, making him the longest-serving current quizmaster on UK TV.
University Challenge airs Monday nights at 8:30pm on BBC Two.
source: express.co.uk