blame her lying, general behaviour and her manipulative personailty on the editing. Its bound to happen, She comes across as a right cow but she will again come up with some very lame excuse about not really being like that and genuinely a nice person, I can see it all now. That woman is going to go a mass public limitaion exercise to some out of this smelling of roses.

Maybe, but who will believe her, buy her products, read her books? Even if they haven't seen the show, press coverage has been full of her. All publicity is good publicity maybe, but only if you are a Jordan and know how to use it.

She can save her breath..."once a liar always a liar" in my book.

...regret signing up.

...shack up with Peter Andre and try and get a series of "what Gillian and Peter did next" off on ITV 67.

When Gillian finally leaves...she'll start legal proceedings - mark my words. Her husband is a lawyer and seeing as she's threaten a website that once took the piss out if her, I'd say she's find all sort of reasons to sue ITV.

I even predict she's argue that her children have been harmed by the show. If I'm wrong I'll eat my trousers.

Gulp, we're all doomed on here then...start saving

I've just posted this old (2005) article on another thread, I think you're right about the husband:-

McKeith claims not to read these attacks on her, though her American husband, Howard, a lawyer, is highly protective (McKeith refuses to discuss this man, or her two daughters, who are five and 10, but I gather that her wedding cake was made of carob and that Howard makes an 'incredible quinoa porridge'; she also tells me, with a wide smile, that it is extremely 'handy' that he is a lawyer).

bit of a long and boring article but insightful in parts....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...drink.features

Thanks for the link. This caught my eye (bold bits)
[i] My results [with patients at her clinic in north London] are so fantastic - I'm sorry to sound immodest, but it's true - I wanted to take that to the masses. This woman - me - who is completely, brutally, totally honest. People like that. I'm real.'

Trades Description springs to mind.

That's an interesting article....sinister is how I would describe her too. That Ben Goldacre/dead cat scenario is hilarious! You too can be gillian McKeith for $60.

I wonder if it was "living food powder" that she put into the camp food and not salt....?

this one might interest you too Daisy......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007...vertising.food

the misuse of her husbands power as a lawyer is indeed "sinister"...... and she bleets about bullying??

So, hubby makes a delicious quinoa porridge does he. ? But she also thought that the vomit pie was delicious, which everybody else has described as disgusting.

Thank you di60. McKeith really does define the word 'charlatan' it seems.

I totally agree Daisy, the awful woman will try and make big money out of this any way she can and when she realises just how dreadfully she's come across it'll be sue sue sue all the way to the bank if she can.

How ? They have no TV, so how can they see what's happening ?

Brilliant! I fell about laughing! On second thoughts shouldn't that be Gillian & Katie Price did next or even maybe a threesome?

Apparently someone from the "The Only Way is Essex" series has suggested Gillian needs vajazzling.

(a) Gee, thanks for that mental image
(b) I pray to God no TV producers read that.

her and the husband will make lots of threats to sue but it is v. unlikely to materialise - they have history!

What an excellent article that is. Surely the last word on McKeith and her money making activities to date.

Threats to sue for libel will be made, but libel has to have happened for the McFake-Megafakers to win.

Just in case I've saved up 36p, a shirt button and piece of juicyfruit to put towards the fighting fund.

This also makes for interesting reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_McKeith

and this is an excerpt:



McKeith was the presenter of You Are What You Eat, a Celador-produced television programme that was broadcast on Channel 4 until it was cancelled in 2007 in which she attempted to motivate the people featured in the programme to lose weight and change their lifestyle. Ian Marber, a nutritionist, describes her as very fervent in her beliefs and thinks of her as a sort of health televangelist. In each episode of the fourth series, called Gillian Moves In: You Are What You Eat, two people are chosen to stay with McKeith at a house in London "with no escape". She first shows each of the subjects a display of their typical week's food consumption. The food is laid out on a table in a cold, congealed and unpleasant state. McKeith often makes comments at this point about this high-fat diet putting the subjects at risk of an early death. The subjects are often videoed emptying the display into refuse sacks.

According to Jan Moir in The Daily Telegraph, she is seen "shouting at sobbing, fat women while forcing them to eat quinoa and undergo frequent sessions of colonic irrigation enthusiastically administered by her good self." She then imparts advice on diet and exercise and forbids alcoholic beverages. Once trained, the participants can return home and are expected to stick to their new regime of diet, exercise and abstinence for eight weeks. If they fail to stick to the diet, McKeith moves in with them to ensure they follow her advice. The participants are shown at the end of the eight weeks to have lost body mass, and say that they feel healthier.

To me, she seems to be a sadistic cow who's lost the plot and deperately needs help from a psychiatrist.

I wonder if the reason she's so focused on rooting through people's poo is that no-one else is likely to be doing that (certainly not on TV) and she can therefore corner the market? No other TV presenters or diet gurus are likely to get into the same thing and start contradicting her pronouncements, are they?

It will be genuinely interesting to see if her career is affected by this series. I note that imdb lists nothing (until this) later than January 2009, which suggests that since her PhD was shown to be fraudulent the tv companies became wary of using her. And I can't honestly see people queueing to buy a book by her any time soon: instead of glowing with health and energy at the moment she looks prematurely old, shagged out and rather ill. If she came to my house and shouted at my poo I would feel confident enough to laugh at her.

Which leads the McKeith 'supplements'. I wouldn't buy them, but notice that Waitrose stocks a selection. Presumably they are keeping her in some style. Let's just say that I can't see her generating much in the way of NEW customers at the moment.

One or two people on these boards over the last couple of days have said they're going to throw away anything of hers they ever bought. It's a PR disaster for McKeith.

After watching last night I get the feeling she may have realised that this has become a disaster for her. The fake attempt at pleasantries with some of the members of camp just makes matters worse for her.

I wonder if she has a phobia of Digital Spy?