U2's Bono: Ordered To Lose Weight???

From what I've heard, touring takes quite the toll on a performer's body. All of the quickie meals, running around onstage for a few hours a night, going to bed late and waking up early... So it's no surprise that artists visit their physicians before a tour much like athletes get physicals before their season begins. But what is surprising is that the members of U2 have actually been ordered to lose weight before they go on the road to support their upcoming album, rumored to be titled No Line On The Horizon.

A New York newspaper is reporting that the band, who sang about how "Big Girls Are Best", will be hitting the road and appearing at arenas near you beginning in April or May of 2009. So this gives them a few months to work off those extra pounds.

So for Bono and Co., maybe they shouldn't have too much of the "sweetest thing(s)" this fall/winter. They could always go sugar-free, I hear it's even better than the real thing... (wink, wink)