We’ve all seen the ad, eat just two bowls of cereal and one balanced meal a day and the weight will drop right off! Well Big Brother twin, Amanda Marchant took this advice a step too far and recently spent some time in hospital as she went overboard on the cereal diet.

A college friend said: “You were meant to have a meal as well as the two bowls a day but she decided just to have the cereal. Crazy!

“She’s always been paranoid she was a bit fatter than her twin Sam and didn’t want to be the bigger one.

“Amanda was determined to lose a lot of weight even though she was already dead skinny. But she got really ill and started coughing up blood.”

She spent two nights in hospital after the incident.