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It was inevitable that two of society's current obsessions - voyeurism and weight control - would find each other in the form of reality TV. The people who gave us Big Brother are developing a spin-off in which voyeurism is combined with fat as overweight people try to lose kilos and stay alive as contestants. The project is known as "Big Blubber".
In the United States, the doyenne of pulp publishing, Judith Regan, is developing a reality show called Losing It for Fox TV, a branch of the Murdoch empire. It, too, will feature attempts at weight loss by real people willing to to turn private problems into public entertainment. These shows probably can't miss. Australia, the US and other wealthy nations are not only in the grip of an obesity epidemic but are obsessing about the problem as it continues to grow, like a national midriff.
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Reality bites - if you're fat, you're lazy, too
