Gogglebox’s Amy Tapper has hit back at a follower who branded her a ‘liar’ for using weight-loss drug Mounjaro to shed a whopping 7.5st without telling fans.
The TV star, 25, recently revealed that she’d turned to the medication in June last year after feeling like there was ‘nothing else she could do’.
However one follower felt deceived and accused of Amy ‘cheating’ fans after she’d posted years of her dieting journey, despite taking the medication which reduces a person’s appetite.
After Amy shared a clip of her GMB interview discussing Mounjaro, they fumed: ‘I feel cheated by this as all those times when she showed her Muscle Food being delivered and exercising on her Instagram page like she was doing this naturally’.
‘There is no problem with her using the injection but don’t come on TV and say this when people have been giving her moral support thinking she had done this naturally’.
They continued: ‘I also don’t agree with her say that if you have 3 stone to lose that someone should not be allowed the injection I am trying so hard to lose weight but its just not shifting and have been refused the injection just because I’m not over a certain BMI, its crap but I guess well done to her for losing weight’.
Gogglebox’s Amy Tapper has hit back at a follower who branded her a ‘liar’ for using weight-loss drug Mounjaro to shed a whopping 7.5st without telling fans (pictured on Thursday)
The TV star recently revealed that she’d turned to the medication in June last year after feeling like there was ‘nothing else she could do’ (pictured 2018)
Jumping to defend herself Amy hit back, writing: ‘If you watch the whole interview you’ll hear that I started the injections last June, I haven’t done the diet you are talking about since 2023 so there’s been no lying here’.
The follower replied that Amy ‘didn’t say she was taking the injection’ and was dishonest for posting before and after photos which she claimed left fans to believe she’d achieved her goal naturally.
During her GMB interview Amy Tapper opened up on her hopes to use weight loss injections for the rest of her life.
The TV personality rose to fame on the Channel 4 show alongside her parents, Jonathan and Nikki, and her older brother Josh, back in 2013.
Despite the family waving goodbye to their role on the series in 2018, Amy has continued to share details of her life with her droves of fans online.
This included her impressive weight loss journey, which saw her shed seven-and-a-half stone and drop four dress sizes, to her social media followers.
Amy was offered gastric bypass surgery, which reduces the amount of food patients can eat and the number of calories their body absorbs, on the NHS before opting to take a weight loss jab instead to help her lose weight.
Instead, the star has revealed she would prefer to stay on Mounjaro forever, as she appeared on ITV show.
However one follower felt deceived and accused of Amy ‘cheating’ fans after she’d posted years of her dieting journey, despite taking the medication which reduces a person’s appetite
After Amy shared a clip of her GMB interview discussing Mounjaro, they fumed: ‘I feel cheated by this’
Jumping to defend herself Amy hit back, writing: ‘If you watch the whole interview you’ll hear that I started the injections last June, so there’s been no lying here’.
She told hosts Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway: ‘It was just ongoing for years and years, I have been overweight since I was about six or seven years old.
‘At that age the doctors visits started and seeing what was wrong, and no-one could quite put their finger on it.
‘I started dieting, a number of diets and tried everything, and it would be the same thing over again, I was lost two to three stone and once I got to the three stone mark, nothing more.
‘I got to the point of being fed up, I just said, “I want to have surgery, I want to wake up tomorrow and not be like this, I can’t do it anymore”.’
When asked what changed with using the injections, Amy continued: ‘Everything, literally everything – people think it suppresses your appetite, which it does, but it does so many other things.
‘It breaks down everything in your body, it makes my body work like a normal metabolism would, my body breaks down now where it used to store just everything and I wouldn’t be able to budge anymore weight.
During her GMB interview Amy Tapper opened up on her hopes to use weight loss injections for the rest of her life (pictured 2018)
‘I was never a bad eater because I always had to watch what I was eating but obviously there were times where I would go out and eat more, and portion sizes, they were big and it would take me a lot to get full up.
‘Now, it’s one or two meals a day and I listen to what my brain tells me to do.’
Questioning why Amy wants to stay on the jab for life, Amy added: ‘That’s what I’ve been advised by my doctor, because a lot of the way people look at the injection is that its a quick fix, but it’s not fixing you forever.
‘The minute I come off of it, my body is going to start doing exactly what it was doing before which means I will be on it for life.
‘Obviously, we’ll see as we will go along as we don’t know what will happen, but I’m n the highest dose at the moment, we made my way up very slowly, did it all the right way, say my doctor every three months.’
ITV’s resident GP Dr Amir Khan then explained: ‘When it comes to these drugs and how long you should be on them, you should be on them for a maximum of two years and within that time, you should get the support, the holistic support that goes along with getting down to a healthy weight.
‘It might be different for each individual person, but two years is what NICE suggests alongside the lifestyle changes and that relationship with food which can begin at a very young age.
‘We’ve got twin studies that shows genetics play between 40 and 70 per cent of a part in a person’s weight… when it comes to Amy, it might be different for her.’
Dr Khan went on to add that the ‘cost of the medication’ plays a part in how long the injections are recommended for use by the majority of users.