GOGGLEBOX’S Amy Tapper has said theme parks and aeroplanes should have bigger seats for plus-sized customers, saying: “People shouldn’t be embarrased.”
The 20-year-old Channel 4 star spoke about how she was shut out of a Harry Potter ride with her dad Jonathan, 52, because the seat belt wouldn’t lock.
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Speaking to Vas J Morgan’s I Am Enough she said: “When I was 17 I went to Disney for a family trip and when I went there we were walking and my dad is big as well and he’s always had that underlying guilty feeling.
“We went to Disney and we went to the Harry Potter section and there was one ride my mum and brother were talking about all day that they wanted to go on – a 4D simulator that was a rollercoaster at the same time.
“When me and when we got to the front there was a seat to test if the belt would come down and lock and me and my dad both failed and could’t go on the ride. I just remember being so upset.
“I was so angry – I was looking at other people in the park thinking: ‘Yeah I’m big but there are a lot of people right here than are bigger than me and my dad.’
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She added: “There needs to be more variety… I want to promote variations of people. I want to be able to help people. Little things like rides, like seat belts on aeroplanes.
“I’ve lost weight and can wear the seatbelt confortably but it shouldn’t be like that from the perspective of equality and variations. People shouldn’t be embarrased.”
Amy and her dad recently lost an amazing three stone with the Do The Unthinkable Diet – and says slimming down could be a factor in them managing to get through an outbreak of coronavirus in the family.
She said: “If we hadn’t lost the six stone last year when we did, could this have been a different outcome for us? I just don’t know.
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“It’s public knowledge that in most cases, the healthier you are when you contract coronavirus, the more likely you are to survive.
“I can’t even begin to think about what might have happened to dad – and to me – if we hadn’t changed our lives last year.
“Dad is now taking it easier but the rest of us are fully well now. I know that if he wasn’t eating right and taking care of himself, things could have been a lot worse for him.”
Amy shot to fame on Googlebox alongside the rest of her family, including mum Nikki and brother Josh.