Jeremy Clarkson says he may be the ‘sexiest man alive’ – but he is in fact ‘something of a porker’.
He admitted ‘underneath the muddy tweed coats’ he dons on the smash hit TV show Clarkson’s Farm he is fat. But he said that does not mean he is lazy – and he has not had a day off work sick in over 30 years.
Clarkson, 64, who was last week named Sexiest Man by members of ilicitencounters.com, surprisingly hailed social media for helping him to carry on working. Instead of producing a nation of couch potatoes who waste their days viewing it, he said sites like Instagram, TikTok and X showed fit folk “doing something with their lives” – and spurred him on to get out of bed.
He said it was wrong to suggest fat people were lazy. Instead, it was the other way round – with lazy folk getting fat.
Clarkson said: “The main problem I have with this fat-makes-you-lazy theory is I can think of lots of fat people with a good work ethic. “Yes, I realise that I’m seen by many to be the sexiest man alive, but underneath the muddy tweed coats, I am something of a porker.
“And I haven’t had a day off sick since the 1980s when I was actually much thinner. Fatness doesn’t make someone lazy. Lazy people become fat.
“You may start out looking like Willem Dafoe or one of those heroin-chic catwalk models, but if you sit in front of the TV all day, watching Homes under the Hammer and washing the endless frozen pizzas and crisps down with gallons of full-fat Coca-Cola, you will quickly become a human barrage balloon.
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“And soon you will be too enormous to work because you can’t even get out of the front door. It’s not obesity that needs tackling, then. It’s the root cause – bone idleness.’’
Jeremy said studies that suggested folk who “sit around all day lazily looking at Instagram and TikTok and X” will “soon become Jabba the Hutt” were wide of the mark and social media was “motivating”.
“Honestly I can think of nothing that is more likely to make a fatso get off its couch and go for a lumber round the local park. Nothing,’’ he said.
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“They’re out for a bike ride, or they’re growing asparagus and radishes. These perfect strangers send me on a guilt trip.
“And surely they must do the same for the lazy people who are watching as well. It’s even worse on Instagram because here it’s my friends hiking in the hills of southern France or having a family picnic with bread they’ve made themselves, or chopping logs.
“At least they were up and about doing something with their lives. I’m aware, of course, that social media has its faults, but causing obesity isn’t one of them.
“You never see fat people on there eating crisps and smoking and getting sloshed. It’s people in storerooms and warehouses and offices having a laugh.’’
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