Once upon a time, a long long time ago, I used to sit with Louis and Bae (the woman who lived with me and helped me with Louis) and we would watch Jamie Oliver’s TV cooking show “The Naked Chef”. This was the first cooking show I ever saw, and to this day, it is the only one I have ever watched more than one episode of. Cool tips, cool guy, who was awkward, and didn’t seem pretentious as he cooked for his friends.
Over the past few years he has gone a crusade against fat people. He calls parents of fat children “fucking tossers”. He creates shows that are aimed at humiliating fat people into eating better. His commercials portray fat people as being miserable, incompetent people with no self control. Today I read this article:
http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/blog/article/30194/page-2/
I have made a conscious choice to not make this blog completely about Fat Activism and HAES (health at any size) content. I can tell you one thing… I have four of Jamie’s books on my shelf and after today, there will be a space where they once were.
1 comment:
Ah bummer...it always seems to happen this way. Celebs who at first seem charming/funny/quirky turn out to be total assholes. Peter Sellers and Woody Allen come to mind.
Too bad about his fat fixation...I saw a documentary about his crusade to put healthy food in British schools, and thought it was quite well done. Exposed the systematic way kids were being stuffed with junk, and showed how easily good, healthy food could replace it.
Guess he must have turned sour about things after that point; I haven't seen him on TV for quite some time now.
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