Scraping the bottom of the barrel is Elvis’ personal doctor, who is doing the rounds of the media flogging his new book which claims that Elvis had, shall we say, a logjam in the river. Dr George Nichopoulos, who was Elvis’ personal doctor for the last 12 years of his life, says that the singer, who perhaps not by coincidence died while sitting on the loo, had severe constipation. The book revels that Elvis’ autopsy found his colon to be five to six inches in diameter compared to an average of half that. What’s more, rather than the colon being the standard four to five feet long, it was almost nine feet long. He also says that this contributed to the massive weight gain he had in his last years. Nothing to do with those peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, hamburgers, deep fried chicken and pizza that Elvis gorged himself on then.