Kenneth Tong; former Big Brother housemate, self-titled Playboy and fame-hungry Twitter addict has now branched out from bragging about his latest sexual conquest to preaching how women should be a size zero.
But is his so-called idea of ‘managed anorexia’ a message we want to be sending out to teenagers and impressionable young women?
The thing is, up until a few months ago, Kenneth Tong was using his joint Twitter account with ex-girlfriend Karly Ashworth to hang onto the speck of fame he had experienced in the wake of Big Brother, and he would regularly post pictures of himself wining and dining various women. However over the past few weeks, Kenneth has done a complete 360 and decided that women shouldn’t eat.
That’s right readers, this man believes that all women should be a size zero, and that anything larger is ‘disgusting’ and a ‘failure’. Only this morning he lectured; “Breakfast? You don’t deserve to be awake, let alone food. You are horrible. We both know it. You are disgusting. You are fat.”
The thing is, how can a man – who is far from being a sex symbol – preach about what women should look like?
Kenneth’s Twitter background isn’t food shy…
He has even tried to piggyback on the fame of other celebrities by Tweeting to ridicule them over their weight or meal decisions, take last nights bitchy comment to One Direction’s Harry Styles; “@Harry_Styles No Nandos my Son! What kind of example are you setting for the youth of today encouraging fast food?!”
I think Mr Tong needs to take into account the irony of this Tweet; the sad fact is… what kind of example is HE setting to the youth of today by – as a Z List Celebrity - endorsing the idea of eating disorders, because let’s face it, that’s what anorexia is.
I am left wondering whether this is all an OTT publicity campaign by a 25-year-old bloke struggling to cling onto any remnants of the ‘fame’ he got from his few hours in the Big Brother house. I mean, clearly Tweets like; “Tell me what you ate today and I won’t listen as you’ve eaten too much. To be thinner, skip dinner. Anorexia is not evil, it is an oft mismanaged blessing.” Are going to attract publicity for this fame monster, and he’s gotten what he wanted after the likes of Rihanna, Simon Cowell, Gordon Ramsey and Rochelle Wiseman have hit back at his words.
Rihanna said; “This is exactly why girls are doing everything to destroy their bodies!” whilst Cowell tweeted: “Just been informed about Mr Kenneth Tong. Twitter has a new village idiot. In fact he doesn’t even deserve the village. He’s an idiot. Mr Kenneth Tong you keep telling people to lose weight. The only weight people should lose is you. You’re not worth my time.”
Rihanna. Not A Size Zero, But Utter Perfection.
When The Saturdays star Rochelle told Tong: “Your tweets are upsetting a lot of people, including myself! It’s very vile!” he tried to squeeze every last dreg of his interaction with the celebrity by goading her with the response; “If you were fat, do you think would you’ve been part of the Saturdays?”
Rochelle Wiseman is an inspiration to so many young women, and for a girl to see Kenneth Tong telling their idol that she would be nothing had she not being thin is a very dangerous line to walk…. Is size zero (despite the fact that Rochelle clearly isn’t a size zero) the kind of image we want impressionable teenagers to aspire to? Surely not.
So, is it not about time Twitter did something about Kenneth Tong? Whilst it is easy for many women to ignore his warped ideas of how a woman should live their lives, there are going to be some who succumb to his desire to control them and really believe that; “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.” To those women (and men) out there…. I implore you to try some warm chocolate fudge cake.
Ruth.x
Karly Ashworth Discusses Kenneth Tong & His ‘Managed Anorexia’ Fascination
Thinspiration? Pass the nachos.
