AIBU to think that whoever is advising Scarlett Moffatt is a deeply irresponsible individual?

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Or number of individuals?

For anyone who doesn't know, SM is a member of one of the families who appear on the C4 tv series Gogglebox. She comes across as a nice enough young woman (I think she is mid 20s), quite witty and funny but not always terribly well informed.

Anyway, she seems to have morphed into a media wannabe. Probably inevitable if you appear on tv fairly often ... you start to think you are actually interesting. Steph & Dom and the awful vicar being other examples.

However, Scarlett put on some weight and got online abuse for it. So she's been on a diet and apparently lost 4 stone in 4 months. Yes, 4 MONTHS. And now someone's doing a diet/weightloss dvd starring Scarlett.

That rate of weight loss is never going to be a good thing! It sends out all the wrong messages . I think whoever has wiggled their way into creating a career for Scarlett is a bit of a cunt.

Or aibu?

She's not stupid or vulnerable. She might not have made the best decisions but they're hardly catastrophic. Fair play to her I say.

i want to know how she lost so much in the time

Losing 4 stone in 4 months is not stupid?

It's standard marketing for these DVDs. I wouldn't be surprised if the results have been exaggerated. Fat pics all over the Daily Mail followed by a transformation just in time for the Christmas market.

Are you sure it wasn't a year? I'm sure I saw a picture of her saying 'A year ago today' type thing

4st in 4 months isn't too bad. It's just over 3lbs a week.

It's a bit silly but I suppose she recognises that as a 'personality' she has a short shelf life and wants to make the most of it, in terms of getting a bit of cash and having a bit of fun in the process. It's hard to judge her for that.

Just been looking online, at various sources. she's lost 2 stone in the last 14 weeks. Which isn't that stupid.

I've read her book. I find it hard to believe she would do anything she didn't want to do. She comes across as someone who knows her own mind.

Saying that, I think she's lost a bit too much weight but if she is happy with it, then good for her.

Doesn't she now cohost a radio show up in the North East? I really like her, she's cleverer than portrayed at times. Good on her for doing what she wants to do.

She hasn't lost it in 4 months! That's a complete exaggeration. She saw herself on the TV week after week and knew she needed to lose some weight. She's been talking about it for several months, not just 4.

Yep, it was definitely a year, not 4 months.

What a difference tho!

She has not lost 4 stone in 4 months. It's just that her weight loss has been a talking point in the media over the past 4 months.

She seems like a bright woman who has her head screwed on. As long as she is happy and healthy then who is anyone else to judge? I personally think she looks great and as someone who is also trying to lose weight and get healthy I really admire her determination.

You seem quite critical of a few other people on Gogglebox. Maybe just don't watch if you find them so irritating?

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Is that picture on the left real? Her arms and legs are still very slim, I think it's been photoshopped to make the weight loss seem more dramatic.

It hasn't been 4 months and I doubt it's 4 stone. She hasn't confirmed her before and now weight. It is just a journalist exaggerating for click bait taking a guess

And at least she has done it by exercise rather than some dodgy diet pill like the TOWIE lot will promote for money

I don't remember her carrying her weight like that but then again I only ever saw her on GB and she wore a completely different style of clothing on the show so it's difficult to tell. Either way she looks great.

Feckingcrutches

So you know for a fact that she started her diet the day that first picture was taken?

What you are looking at is a picture of her taken on her birthday one year ago and this year.

It says nothing about how quickly she lost the weight! Do you understand?

She posted this in August.

She looked more attractive when she was voluptuous.

OP and how do you know for a 'fact' she's lost four stone in four months?

I don't know for a fact she's lost 4 stone in 4 months, I've just seen it in several places online. If that's incorrect then hopefully she would correct the "facts" herself on Twitter or elsewhere. But perhaps her publicist just likes the headline grabbers too much?

Just read a bunch of quotes from her Twitter account about her boyfriend. I honestly don't think you can say she is smart.

And you didn't answer my question to you FeckingCrutches.

This was from April. So she had been on her diet for quite a while.