HIS TV show has been branded disgusting and his methods appalling but that hasn’t put him off helping “lardies”.
And now, controversial Fat Families host Steve Miller has made his most shocking claim to date – he can make you skinny WITHOUT fat jabs. Here, he tells us why moaning fatties need to stop being victims, adding: “Forget fat jabs – I’ll be your new pr**k.”
Steve is a registered hypnotherapist after studying at the London College of Clinical Hypnosis.
Around a year ago he created HypnoJab; the first ever hypnotic process for helping people lose weight by imagining they are taking a fat jab.
He already provides a £55 online course utilising the technique which he promotes as providing a safe way of losing weight free of potentially serious side effects associated with the jabs.
“What I’m saying is forget fat jabs, I’m going to be your new pr**k,” he says.
“And I’m setting myself up there but I don’t care.
“So it’s a hypnosis alternative, if that makes sense. I’ve always used this tool.”
Though he’s not a jab advocate, he’s also not entirely against the appetite-suppressing medication either.
“They don’t really teach us how to acquire being slim,” he says.
“I’m not anti from the perspective of a person out of desperation going on it. Because I understand people’s pain when it comes to being fat.”
He continues: “People want the easy way, and I totally get that.
“The biggest worry with the jabs is we don’t know long-term what’s going to happen with people that take it all the time. That’s a big worry.
“What I do know is there are some people that have had a terrible reaction to the jabs, but there are other people where they’ve done really well and the success is there.
“We also know that the jabs, once you stop taking them, you’re going to get very fat again. So what I say to people is, listen, if you’re taking the jab, at the same time, build up your own new habits so that you are able to come off the jab.”
I say to people, ‘Stop talking like a big fat lardy loser and start talking like a wobble-free winner’
Steve Miller
This year, Steve is bringing Fat Families back 15 years after it last aired.
Armed with a cameraman, he will soon be visiting the nation’s ‘fattest’ towns including Wigan, Hartlepool and Tamworth, dishing out servings of brutal honesty to show “lardies love” and help them shed weight.
Over the years, Steve has had issues with his own weight and it’s a battle he says is ongoing, admitting: “I can become a wide load at times”.
It’s this relatability, he feels, that makes him a hit with viewers.
WEIGHT CRACKDOWN
Though his tongue is sharp, Steve’s a realist and approves of people letting their hair down over Christmas or on holiday and indulging rather than strictly following a healthy diet all year round.
“If you go on holiday and you get a bit fat and you like the cocktails, it doesn’t matter,” he says. “Because if we can just draw people into a life change where they have a few moments of it doesn’t matter, you know, holidays, Christmas, Easter and so forth, but the rest of the year they return to healthy eating the UK would be in a much better place.”
That being said, he believes more needs to be done at government level to put an end to the obesity epidemic in the country. Official statistics show that some 64.5 per cent of adults in the UK are overweight, with 26.5 per cent of these obese. Meanwhile 22 per cent of children aged 10-11 are obese.
“Why can’t Keir Starmer say it’s wrong to be fat? He wouldn’t though because he’d be nervous.
“I think we’ve got to shut the f**k up from moaning,” Steve continues. “We’ve nurtured a country of victims when it comes to not just weight but many things. I sometimes say to people, ‘Stop talking like a big fat lardy loser and start talking like a wobble-free winner’.”
The return of Fat Families is Steve’s way of shifting the narrative and backing up his harsh words with action.
“It’s a mixture of humour, because I think the nation wants the humour; woke television is dull, it’s boring,” he says.
“We want more Ricky Gervais-style out there. And that’s what I’m going to deliver. There won’t be any toning it down. I’m here to love everyone, love the lardies. I want people to laugh because we live in depressing times.”
In addition to the humour and experimental techniques, Steve will also introduce those taking part to the 80-20 meal planning system, which encourages people to eat nutritious food 80 per cent of the time and indulge in less healthy food the remaining 20 per cent of the time, while providing online tools to help address mental attitudes towards food and overeating.
“I guess what I don’t want it to become is just like Fat Families was before,” he says.
“Because then it will be boring. I want it to be strong, with some sensitivity. But really I want a f***ing lardy laugh out of me.
“And I tell you from a TV perspective. I can’t believe the amount of young people that are dying for this to happen. And I think it’s because they’ve been starved of proper comedy.”
BRUTAL HONESTY
Steve is funding the project himself and is planning to screen the episodes on YouTube. He wants it to be raw and ready without any studio sheen, and eventually harbours dreams of Netflix picking it up.
Each episode will take place in a location on the official list of UK’s ‘fattest’ towns and he will meet real people and tackle their weight issues head on.
Fat Families aired on Sky for two series before Steve traded the UK for TV work in The Netherlands.
Even though only 14 episodes were ever made and there was much scrutiny over Steve’s methods – he reduced one family to tears when he presented an obese dad with funeral flowers – the show has stood the test of time and often appears in viral online memes.
Part of the reason he’s independently producing it is because he believes TV commissioners are starving viewers of edgy content.
“Actually, they underestimate the viewers in terms of what they want,” he says. “And they pander to a minority of people that get, well, frankly, offended by the snowflakes that have dropped overnight.”
Steve came close to a TV return during the coronavirus pandemic when Channel 5 recommissioned You Are What You Eat 15 years after Gillian McKeith first hosted it.
He sent bosses an audition tape but ultimately lost out on the presenting role to Trisha Goddard and Dr Amir Khan.
The reboot only lasted for one series though and Steve feels the broadcaster made a mistake overlooking him.
He says: “I tell you now, it might sound up my flabby a**e, but if I had presented that show, it would have been a massive hit for Channel 5.”
When pressed why it went wrong, Steve answers: “It was so boring. It was so studio-y. It looked studio-y based. And it was so technical.
“I think when I watched it, I thought, ‘Well, this will help with insomnia‘.”
So Fat Families series three is a chance for Steve to prove there’s still a place for the programme and his straight-talking persona in the present day.
He maintains he has no regrets over anything that’s come before on the show and defiantly says: “It’s not about being horrible to people who are fat; it’s about, ‘Come on, let’s have a gargantuan giggle, get yourself in order now, and let’s move forward’.”
The proof will be in the pudding.