Loose Women viewers have slammed yesterday’s panel for supposedly fat shaming TV chef James Martin
Many fans felt that the line of questioning by Janet Street-Porter, Coleen Nolan, Ruth Langsford and Brenda Edwards was more than a touch hypocritical, as they talked pointedly about James’ weight and asked him uncomfortable questions.
At one point, they asked if his mother had ever expressed concern about his weight.
“Weight is quite a big issue,” he said. “Now she’s got a big TV. It never used to be a problem when she had a little TV.
"It's all relative. HD is horrific. I've never been a little lad. I’m 6ft 4 and 18 stone."
And producers even went so far as to screen an old picture from the beginning of his career in the late 90s, to compare him to when he was “a little thinner”.
Outraged fans took to social media to proclaim that this would never have been the angle for the interview if the guest had been a woman.
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“#LooseWomen are such hypocrites, do you think they'd ever ask a female guest what their mum thinks of them putting on weight or make such a thing of it...
"They go on about fatshaming all the time!!"
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Another raged, “Loose Women is just a panel of self righteous hypocrites. Asked a professional chef what his mother thinks about his weight when he's there to promote his new show.
“Now if someone asked one of them that, it'd be six week's of episodes themed on being fat shamed in the work place.”
“You should all be ashamed of how you spoke to @jamesmartinchef about his weight,” said a third. “Totally let yourselves down, you 'perfect' ladies."
James was on the programme to promote his new show James Martin’s Great British Adventure, where he will travel round the country to explore local food traditions.