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The real telly tubbies: X Factor failure's 83-stone family claim they are simply too fat to work




They have a combined weight of 83 stone and claim £22,000 in taxpayer-funded benefits on the basis they are ‘too fat to work’.

Yet, incredibly, X Factor flop Emma Chawner's family from Blackburn are demanding more money - because they still can’t afford their calorie-laden lifestyle.

Asked why they don’t simply go on a diet, the jobless Chawner family who are so obese their neighbours call them ‘the telly tubbies’ insist: ‘We don’t have the time.’

Emma, 19, famously appeared on the TV talent show in 2007 wearing a wedding-style dress made by her dad.
She was kicked off after the first audition, but not before the family were evicted from their previous house after neighbours complained about her singing at 3am.



Both Philip Chawner, 53, and his 57-year-old wife Audrey weigh 24st. Their youngest daughter, Emma, is 5ft 3in and weighs 17st, while her older sister Samantha, 21, is 5ft 9in and weighs 18st.

They haven’t worked in 11 years, claiming their weight is due to a hereditary condition.
Instead, the family spend their days in front of a television borrowed from a friend.



Mr Chawner said: ‘We love TV. It’s on from the moment we get up. Often I’m so tired from watching TV I have to have a nap.’

Yet of their £22,508 a year in tax-free benefits - equivalent to a £30,000 salary - Mr Chawner said: ‘What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It’s not our fault we can’t work. We deserve more.’

The family claim to spend £50 a week on food, including chocolate, chips and pies, and consume 3,000 calories each a day. The recommended maximum intake is 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men.

‘We have cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner,’ Mrs Chawner told Closer magazine.

‘We all love nibbling on biscuits. I once bought some pears, but they tasted funny.

‘All that healthy food, like fruit and veg, is too expensive. We’re fat because it’s in our genes. Our whole family is overweight.’

Emma, who would like to lose 6st, added: ‘We don’t have time to diet.’

Each week, Mr and Mrs Chawner, who have been married for 23 years, receive £177 in income support and incapacity benefit. Mrs Chawner is paid an extra £330-a-month disability allowance for epilepsy and asthma, both a result of being overweight.

Mr Chawner gets £71 a month after developing Type 2 diabetes because of his size. He was on a waiting list for a gastric band last year, but a heart condition made the operation unsuitable.

Samantha receives £84 in Jobseekers’ Allowance each fortnight while Emma, who is training to be a hairdresser, gets £58 every two weeks under a hardship fund for low-income students.

‘I’m a student and don’t have time to exercise,’ Emma said. ‘We all want to lose weight to stop the abuse we get in the street, but we don’t know how.’



As a special treat for Stead, here's a youtube clip of that X-Factor audition mentioned above!








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Is this serious?

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Aodan wrote:

Is this serious?



 Deadly.   blankstare

I remember this family - the brain doesn't let you forget that kind of image!

Unfortunately their story doesn't surprise me, but they do win today's 'THE WORLD OWES ME A LIVING' award.  Geesh! no.gif



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"I once bought some pears, but they tasted funny. "

The rage - its building... building up in my head... must kill to release pressure - kill stupid stupid fat people... with a large lump of wood... with a nail in it...

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Simon Cowell has just gone up slightly in my estimation, though I was rather shocked that he was so nice!
Was it her that tried to sue X-factor for being fattist?

I would like some money for my genetic predisposition to consume too much chocolate please.

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JonnyStead wrote:
The rage - its building... building up in my head... must kill to release pressure - kill stupid stupid fat people... with a large lump of wood... with a nail in it...
Darren - it worked!  You are, indeed, the Master.

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Mere words fail me...Are these wastes of oxygen allowed to breed?...Ben

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apparently... there were two.. then there were four.

I don't mind people on public assistance or disability... if they actually need it. "Can't stop watching television and eating biscuits" does NOT count as a disability.

They're just trashy, and apparently proud of that fact.

As much as she makes me cringe, someone needs to send Gillian McKeith after them.

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And hopefully they'll sit on her and she will die! God I hate that woman....

(She makes good points, but she's fecking annoying along with it!)

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So, I have a plan. There is, apparently, a high rate of unemployement amongst ex-forces people. The government should employ them to put people like this though diet, exercise & general usefullness routines to turn them into functioning members of society.

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In some sort of offshore boot camp?

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Nice idea, but I believe we've already filled Australia.

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I heard there were fast tracts of it in the middle that were empty. I'm sure if we try harder we can really fill it! In fact it will be easier to fill the space with immensely fat people!

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Bit harsh on ex-squaddies though, could we at least provide them with air conditioned pubs to recover from shouting at fat people in?

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Hmm. Depends on who's footing the bill.

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It would appear that 3,500 people agree with me -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7970491.stm

Thats a start



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