Kate Moss is in trouble again, for revealing that “nothing tastes as good as being thin feels” is one of her mottos.  A supermodel revealing that she likes being thin, and sometimes doesn’t eat?!  Heaven forbid; whatever next?

The BBC estimates that a third of adults in the UK will be obese by 2012, and there are more obese children than ever before.  The strain on the waistbands and budget of the NHS caused by obesity is, well, huge.   By comparison diagnosis of anorexia is estimated at 0.3% in Western industrialised countries.

Allegedly Kate is encouraging us all to burn our fridges and embrace anorexia.  But the point is being missed: anorexia is a serious psychological disorder, not being on a diet or enjoying being slim.

More people are fat than are thin.  Most people should eat less.  People should be encouraged to see being slim as desirable and worthwhile, and celebrities shouldn’t be berated for daring to suggest ramming our faces might not be more rewarding than being healthy and attractive, especially when they have made their very successful careers out of just that.

Bollocks to all the hype.

Jan Moir’s article published on the Daily Mail’s website this morning entitled “There’s nothing natural about Stephen Gately’s death” (or words to that effect) has been swiftly amended to slightly lighter connotations about the author’s feeling that homosexuality is abnormal, unnatural and that all gays are destined to a early grave, surrounded by hypodermic needles, Eastern European rent boys and the collective hatred of middle England.  Of course, we’re all to blame for allowing homosexuals the charade of civil partnership, which undoubtedly encourages their scandalous behaviour, right Jan?

It’s easy to jump on the everyone-hates-the-Daily-Mail bandwagon, but they don’t do themselves many favours.  Even their own readers are revolting (but that’s another story) over this, and quite rightly so.

“Another real sadness about Gately’s death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.

Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages. Not everyone, they say, is like George Michael.”

Perhaps, shock horror, not all gay people are like George Michael. Perhaps, and this is just putting it out there, a rich fallen pop star on holiday has higher than standard chances of dying young and in suspicious circumstances than the every day person.  You never know, but straight celebrities could die in such circumstances too!

I hear Falcon Heene’s been grounded