1 / 9A football fan once dubbed Britain’s fattest man has died aged 52.2 / 9Tributes have been paid to “wonderful” Barry Austin who had a “heart of gold”.3 / 9The ex-cabbie, of Chelmsley Wood, Birmingham, once starred in Sky One documentary Inside Britain’s Fattest Man.4 / 9Barry at one point said he consumed up to 29,000 calories a day and drank up to 12 litres of fizzy drink in a day, swelling to 412kg.5 / 9Lifelong Birmingham City fan Barry later lost 127kg after health problems, slashing his daily calorie intake to 1500.6 / 9In recent years Barry was said to struggle with breathing issues and infections. His partner’s heartbroken daughter Dannie Louise paid tribute to him on Facebook, posting: “Absolutely heartbroken is the only word I can say how I feel right about now.7 / 9Barry, who used to drink up to 40 pints of beer and bottles of spirits on a night out, was known as ‘Fat Baz’ and had his own column in a lad’s mag. He was said to have shed 127kg stone back in April 2012 as he prepared to marry his then finance Debbie Kirby, 50, from Solihull, West Midlands.8 / 9Footie fan Barry even had his own custom-built chair at Birmingham City’s ground in 1997. A spokesman for Birmingham City tweeted: “We are saddened to hear of the passing of lifelong Bluenose Barry Austin.9 / 9In 2012, Barry got down on one knee to propose to his fiancee Debbie, saying: “I’ll feel like the luckiest man in the world to call Debbie my wife.”