Kate Thornton says TV boss fat-shamed her by telling her to go to boot camp to lose weight

Kate Thornton has instructed how a TV boss fat-shamed her by saying the present needed to ship her as well camp to drop some pounds – however she instructed him the place to go and in addition later put the knife in years later.

The TV presenter, 49, who has appeared on X Issue, Unfastened Ladies and This Morning, struggled with the consuming issues anorexia and bulimia when she was a teen and was commonly overwhelmed to the bottom by bullies for being ‘chubby’ – to the extent the police had been concerned following demise threats.

However she stated even after she’d made it massive on TV as an grownup she was insulted by highly effective senior figures.

Fats-shamed: Kate Thornton has instructed how a TV boss fat-shamed her by saying the present needed to ship her as well camp to drop some pounds – however she instructed him the place to go and in addition later put the knife in years later (pictured in Feb 2022)

She stated: ‘There was one incident in telly the place I used to be engaged on a present the place I used to be pulled to 1 aspect and instructed that they want me to go and perhaps go to a boot camp to drop some pounds, however ‘don’t be concerned we’ll pay for it’.

‘It was a tv individual – let’s simply go away it there.

‘And I stated to this individual ‘If I used to be an alcoholic would you encourage me to have a drink as a result of I am not enjoyable on digicam?’.

‘I stated “Have you learnt what, I’ll let you know two issues now. I’ll let you know to start with I’ll let you know why you possibly can’t say that as a result of I’ve had a historical past of consuming issues, however you do know that, you’re alive to that, so I am simply going to attempt to do the training piece of why this isn’t acceptable – and secondly go f*** your self”.’

Bullied: The TV presenter, 49, struggled with the consuming issues anorexia and bulimia when she was a teen and was commonly overwhelmed to the bottom by bullies for being ‘chubby’

She added: ‘Funnily sufficient, ten years later I used to be in the home and this individual wandered previous and goes ‘Hello, it is me, did you not recognise me?’.

‘I stated ‘yeah, I ignored you’. And I simply watched this individual wilt on his personal vine.

‘So I believed ‘Mate, you probably did that to me on probably the most spectacular degree, so simply style a number of the coolaid you pressured down my throat as a result of it is not good.’

Kate additionally stated years after being bullied in school over her measurement she additionally met once more along with her tormentor in chief.

Kate stated: ‘I used to be chubby as a result of in as a lot as my physique was going by way of all the modifications that teenage our bodies do. I used to be being actually bullied, I used to be getting demise threats and the police had been concerned, by the ladies in school.’

‘We thought it was regular in my home to have a whistle subsequent to the cellphone, in order that once they phoned we would simply blow the whistle down the cellphone to them. And I keep in mind all of the names to today and I’ll by no means forgive them.

‘Certainly one of them I noticed her, not lengthy after I would began on Pop Idol. I recognised her from her ankles – I spent a whole lot of time her ankles as a result of she’d usually knock me to the ground.

‘I noticed her and I pulled in. I used to be driving previous and I pulled in. And I stated her identify and she or he was like ‘My God you are doing so nicely, it is. so good to see you’.

‘She has no recollection of the stain that she’s left on my childhood really, her and her mates, and the best way that they carried themselves.

‘It was realized behaviour. They weren’t taught completely different. She was the bruiser, she was the one that may throw the punches, and this was each week.”

However Kate instructed the Two Pints with Will & Ralph podcast: ‘I’ve to recollect she was a child.

‘She was pushing a buggy with two youngsters in after I noticed her. I actually did not need to choose a dialog like that up in entrance of kids.

‘However you simply should forgive folks typically for ignorance and I believe she was simply appearing out and I used to be the straightforward goal. Their behaviour was terrible.’

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Candid: However she stated even after she’d made it massive on TV as an grownup she was insulted by highly effective senior figures (pictured 2021)