Dear Steve Allen

Today’s blog post wasn’t supposed to be this, it was supposed to be a first impressions on a face mask but I am so angry with how people are treating people especially grown adults fat shaming young people.

So I know I have a few international readers and you probably don’t know who I am talking about. We have a radio station called LBC, Leading Britain’s Conversation, now I listen to it in the morning when I leave for work, I love listening to Nick Ferrari, his show is 7am to 10am but as I’m doing a little extra work I’ve been leaving out early and the show on the radio is Steve Allen. Now if you would like to hear someone slag off people, moan and generally be bitchy then you would love to listen to this sad little man - I am naming calling now because apparently it is okay to put people down.

"I'm bored of her already. She's a chubby little thing isn't she. Have you noticed? Probably her dad's cooking I should imagine."

Sorry but why does a 67 year old man feel the need to make a nasty comment like that about a 19 year old woman.

Chubby, chunky, fat, all horrible words, I know he just made a small comment but 'a chubby little thing' is so patronising, these words are hurtful, really hurtful and cause a lot of damage.

What I don't get is how someone can judge somebody when they look like this? He isn't slim Jim, this 67 year old diabetic man is judging people when he isn't a pillar of health. Now I know what it is like living with somebody with diabetes but this guy thinks it's funny to make jokes.

Jokes like this above, more than 700 people with diabetes die prematurely every week in the UK. According to 2018 stats 500 people living with diabetes died prematurely every week in England and Wales.

Now before this comment I always thought he was rude but heard he was doing some fundraising for 100 charities or something by selling his tea trays but after this hurtful comment I have realised he shouldn't be doing this. Comments like what he has made can be very detrimental to people's mental health, ironic thing is that the tea trays he sells a portion of the money is going to ten mental health charities.

CASY is a registered charity dedicated to promoting and preserving the mental and emotional health of children and young people throughout Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

Please think before you speak, words can be hurtful, eating disorders have the highest mortality rates among psychiatric disorders. There are 266,300 people aged 16 and over with anorexia nervosa; 443,800 people with bulimia nervosa, 1,398,000 people with binge eating disorder, and 1,309,000 people with other specified feeding and eating disorders in the UK.

Just think, words really hurt and I feel like there should be some form of punishment for that sort of comment, there are people who listen to him and are inspired by him and I feel this is just bad behaviour.