Angry Ginge, 24, managed to shift 7kg whilst taking part in I’m A Celebrity but his BMI was higher than expected after he did the test alongside campmate Lisa Riley
Furious Angry Ginge lived up to his name after discovering the results of his BMI test – finding out he’s still classed as overweight despite weeks of eating next to nothing in camp.
The King of the Jungle shifted 7kg on the show as the stars suffered from a serious lack of food in the Outback. But despite the impressive weight-loss, it was still not enough for the streaming star to be considered officially healthy.
Campmate Lisa Riley joined the social media star, real name Morgan Burtwistle, as they pumped their details into the website which calculate your body mass index. Your BMI is a value derived from the mass and height of a person and is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, taking into account age and gender.
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But Ginge was not happy when he read his data after living off rice, beans and animal’s unmentionables for almost a month. As they waited, he told Lisa: “I lost 7kg. I was in the overweight category. So now, am I going to be in healthy or am I still overweight?”
Then the big reveal came and he found out he had a BMI of 26 – keeping him in the overweight range. “For f**k’s sake, man,” he fumed to his co-star, who dropped from a size 28 to a size 12 in just 18 months. Lisa didn’t let fans in on her result.
The NHS website states: “An overweight result suggests you could benefit from making some healthy changed. If you want to lose some weight, working towards a healthier weight range could reduce the risk of long-term conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.”
Speaking on This Morning, presenters Cat Deeley and Ben Shepard asked Ginge how he dealt with the food deprivation in camp. He responded: “To be honest, I was actually looking forward to that because I went on there as a bit of a weight loss journey and I lost 7kg. So I can’t say it wasn’t successful.”
Going forward, he aims ro maintain his weight loss and confirmed he is going to “cut down on fizzy drinks”. Ginge was crowned the winner last Sunday with Tom Read Wilson finishing in second place. Former EastEnders actress, Shona McGarty, finished in third place and musician Aitch was voted out on Saturday night.
When asked about the lack of food, he said: “I was looking forward to that, I went on there as a bit of a weight loss journey, and I lost seven kg, so I can’t say it wasn’t successful.” While laughing, Ginge added: “I’m probably not recognisable.”
After arriving back at his hotel, Ginge was met with snacks including Pringles and a can of Red Bull to boost his energy levels. But there was one thing he had his mind on – a full English breakfast, which he devoured, but he laughed when revealing that he left the tomatoes on the side so he could focus on hash browns.
One memorable moment of Ginge’s experience was winning milk bottle sweets with Kelly Brook and his close pal Aitch. But unbeknownst to their campmates, the trio secretly ate some of the sweet treats before returning to camp. This, however, became public knowledge when Kelly dropped the bombshell that they’d eaten some when she was evicted.
Ginge said: “I’ll be honest, Kelly, she bottled that one if you pardon the pun, she just said there was more than 10, so we could play it off as 13, if she said there were 20, we were going to struggle. I didn’t enjoy stealing them, but I’m not going to lie, they were bloody delicious.”
Having found fame on social media thanks to streaming, Ginge spends a significant proportion of his day on his phone and laptop, something which he now admits will change. He said: “I think it’s matured me into more of a family man, I take for granted going for meals with my family, always on my phone.”
Source: Mirror
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