British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has landed himself in hot water!
Some social-media users have branded him a hypocrite for praising prime minister Boris Johnson’s anti-obesity plan.
Johnson has launched a new health campaign aimed at getting the nation to “embrace a healthier lifestyle”, The Sun reports.
The Better Health campaign will encourage doctors to prescribe exercise, require calorie labels at restaurants and restrict buy-1-get-1-free deals for fast food.
During an interview with Channel 4 News, Jamie (45) praised the campaign as a “ potentially pivotal movement”.
“For myself and other campaigners who’ve been really trying hard to get some kind of centring of a campaign to improve child health in this country for many years, like decades, this feels like a bit of a moment,” he said.
“Hopefully what we have the potential of here in the UK is one of the best child health strategies in the world. Fingers crossed.”
Acid-tongues trolls were quick to point out the irony of the chef’s comments as he serves up calorie-heavy recipes himself, the Daily Mail reports.
“Jamie Oliver is a massive hypocrite!” one wrote. “Telling the whole country to lose weight when I don’t think a single one of his recipes is less than 1 000 calories! Even the salads are swimming in olive oil.”
“I find it hypocritical that Jamie Oliver is telling us all to lose weight/diet more when he himself is the prince of olive oil and liberally pours 300+ calories into his dishes for absolutely no reason at all,” another user wrote.
I find it hypocritical that Jamie Oliver is telling us all to lose weight/diet more when he himself is the Prince of Olive Oil and liberally pours 300+ cals into his dishes for absolutely no reason at all.
— Megan Walsh (@megwalsh10) July 28, 2020
Jamie Oliver on channel 4 news talking about obesity and poor people, he ain’t no slim Jim is he. Bumped his suppliers for 83 million quid but still living off the fat of the land.
— Colm Hughes EX Labour still Socialist (@ledclass2) July 27, 2020
Source:
The Sun, Channel 4 News, Daily Mail
