Billy Gardell has been a mainstay on CBS for over a decade, starring in "Mike & Molly" and "Bob Hearts Abishola" a few years later. You may not recognize the name, but you'll surely recognize the ...

"It doesn't matter what age you are. If you are willing to do something a day at a time, you can change anything," Gardell said of his weight loss Alexis Jones is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

“Even with the surgery, I was going to have to change my way of thinking,” the 54-year-old actor tells PEOPLE JP Mangalindan is a Senior Writer for TV at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE in May 2023.