Supersize vs Superskinny
Series 4. Episode 1/8
New series. Louise Hayes, who usually eats meals consisting of five or six courses, trades daily diets with Josh Evans, whose own menu is severely lacking. She also receives a message from a 41-stone Texan who is so obese she has had to move into a care home, and visits America to discover the consequences of maintaining her unhealthy relationship with food. Christian Jessen, Ursula Philpot and Helena Fox also hear from people with anorexia and bulimia.
It’s very odd indeed to see your son’s name in the TV guide. Quite how we will sit and watch this I am not yet sure. For two years my youngest son lived with his cousin, and they had a good old time of it. Whilst living in the flat, and without telling us his plan, Josh applied for this show and they accepted him straight away – such is his body type (and lifestyle ) that he makes perfect exploitation material for a reality tv programme.
He asked us to participate, as the tv crew wanted some context, but it was filmed the day P began his cancer treatment, so we were able to demur without guilt. I know they have filmed some screen time with his cousin, and with his girlfriend of the time, and Josh has reassured us that he wouldn’t let them paint him as a starved mis-treated child from a broken home. We can only watch between our fingers and hope he pulled it off. Anyway, he had a great time making the programme, coming back with plenty of stories of his five days in a house with the FP (he was the TP – work it out for yourself). One of his highlights was meeting a man whose name really is Garfield Carrot. He put on weight, but the truth is that he is back down to around 8 and a half stone, and he’s six foot three. He loves sushi, Subway, fried chicken and bananas. He just doesn’t bother eating any of them very often. And you can count every one of his ribs.
But his mother loves him.
Well, I thought he was a lovely young man, charming and bright. You should be very proud of him.
Oh thank you Charles, I really am. I thought both he and Louise were treated very fairly. He might even start eating more often.