Too Big To Walk: And The Walkers Are….
Eight seriously obese people have been given an extraordinary chance to lose weight, get fit and change their lives in a marathon 500-mile walk from the south coast of England to Edinburgh.
The walkers taking part are:
Adam Van Gogh – 29, from Newcastle, weighs 22 stones 9 lbs
Adam wants people to see past his weight to see the man inside, but his wife’s cooking – she even deep-fries lettuce – isn’t helping!
Alice Duxbury – 27, from Leicestershire, 22 stones 8 lbs
Alice wants to get married but is afraid she won’t look good in her wedding dress. She has tried every diet in the book and all of them have failed. This is her last chance to get control of her weight.
Gary Baines – 44, from Lancashire, weighs 24 stones 4 lbs
He’s been told that unless he loses weight he won’t be around to see his daughters grow up and is worried that they will become fat too.
Hayley Rentall – 27, from Middlesex, 23 stone 11 lbs, dress size 24-28.
Hayley has two kids, aged 2 and 3-years old, and doesn’t want to be the fattest mum at the school gates. She was bullied as a child for her weight.
Jack Gordy – 20, from Leeds, weighs 26 stones
Jack wants to lose weight to have the confidence to stop hiding away at home and get a life that a lad his age should be living, going out having fun and meeting girls. He has a BMI (Body Mass Index, a measure of how fat someone is) of nearly 50 – twice the recommended healthy limit of 25.
Jane Thompson Smith – 41, from Middlesborough, 23 stones 3 lbs
Jane wants to have kids, but she’s been told that it will be a risk unless she loses weight.
Stacey Pinnock – 22, from East London. 23 stones 8 lbs, dress size 28.
She’s never had a boyfriend and is unemployed. Stacey wants to lose weight to get her dream job as an airhostess (she can’t fit into the seats at the moment).
Vincent Youngman – 24, from Brighton, 31 stones 5 lbs
Vincent is an actor who’s sick of being offered jobs because of his size and wants to be appreciated for his talent instead.
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well cathy as much as I’m sure he would like to (lol) but its not practical he is in leeds im in london, he still lives with his parents i would prefer a man that is mopre secure in his life and got a career and his own place and transport- i have those things so why shouldnt my man? i have had more girlfriends than jack, he is 20 i turned 28 on tuesday, I have 2 kids and he is a young man and needs a young woman without kids i think so he can live a bit also he is so sweet he gave me toothache. he will make the most wonderful boyfriend to whichever girl is lucky to “bag” him if only he was a bit older i could have had some fun. we got on amazingly well and everyone tried to force the situation which got a bit wearing and jack didnt appreciate that at all as you can appreciate, but i do love jack he is gorgeous and funny and generally just lovely and desrves a girlfriend like that too…
So what is stopping you who says its forever, you enjoy each others company. its the person not the baggage at this stage surely.
There is nothing wrong with a toyboy, go for it have fun see where it takes you.
Happy belated Birthday babe.
Force the situation!?!…We helped the poor lad escape with his life!!!!!
A.V.G.
Hi J.B., your not very nice………he must have liked Hayley, a lot of young men like older women.
Whats for dinner tonight, can I come round this time?
J.B.I would love to chat with Vince any chance you could let him know for me.
cheers babe
thanks cathy, but the truth of the situation is that jack and i are friends and i am very contented with that. He is a wonderfull bloke and I hope we stay in touch forever… I could say loads of stuff in response to Johnny but its not worth it and I am well above getting into online scraps. I could also tell a hell of a lot of stuff that went on at camp that would slag others off as they have done to me but i wont. so all in all my nan was right a still tongue keeps a wise head. and i shall choose to take adams comment as a joke. oh by the way this website have asked me for an interview and i agreed so keep your eyes out for that… love you all xx
really random, but…
has the show finished now??
cos i’ve been watching it and its really good and i’ll be pissed off if its finished.. huauha
and i love readin all your conversations.. tres amusant!
anyway..
*slowly backs away*
xoo muah
MMMMM,
Matt Wilson is very hot.He could train me for anything.Adam also is quite sexy in a way.He came across as being quite confidant,very witty down to earth,and a bit of a comedian.He made me laugh so much.I feel that Adam was the most normal person on that walk,in the respect that he did not take any shit from the people who were holding the group back,so hats off to him,complete respect.
Hey Cathy, I promise you on a stack of Bibles Jack didn’t want to go there. I’m not sure if Hayley knows, but me and Stacey had our ears pressed up against a door one night and Hales was like ‘Pepe la Pew’ on poor Jack!
And who are you to say whether I’m nice or not…Piss off, you don’t know me!!!! If you can find anyone on that show who can call me not nice (including Hayley!), I’ll smash my left nut with a hammer!
It’s all selective editing!!! believe it or not there were 8 people on this show, not just me, Stacey and Hayley, and we all got along brilliantly most of the time.
Give me your Email and I’ll text to the Vinmeister!!!
A.V.G.
A.V.G.
P.S.
G D Harris…if you are a chick get in touch?
If not, you’re still cool!
A.V.G.
thanks for that Jonny Bollocks.Im a guy!!I just cant find the words to describe you without bursting into huge fits of laughter,because you are so humerous.I think you may have a wee bit of a gay folowing north of the border!!!!and that is a good thing.
I respect you.Well done.
(you can walk this way anytime !!)
graham
Graham,
please thank every member of the Scottish Gay community in a method of your chosing.
Hayley was convinced that I am Bi-curious, and I’m surprised that little ‘Jem’ didn’t make it on to the show!
Alas, you will have to pine away and drag yourself on through life, resolute in the knowledge that I can’t be yours.
Be courageous!!!
A.V.G.
P.S. I do know a guy called Gee you might be interested in!?! (in-joke)
Hi all, Big vin here again. Now thank you all for the kind words. But the crew did the best they could for me and even offered for me to rejoin the walk a week after I went home. But I felt that would be really unfair to every one on the walk and most of all those like jane and hayly that had to drop out too.
Cathy I would love to get to know you so here is my email address vinyoungman@yahoo.co.uk Maybe we could go for a walk together.
Of course i know youre unobtainable Jonny Bollocks,but I still think you are lovely!!!Maybe Hayley had a wee fancy for you?All Im going to say is once youve had the smoked salmon you dont go back to kippers
.
graham.
(p.s my nickname is gee. spooky )
Hi Gee *Hugs*
gee, i most certainly did not fancy adam!!
adam, i was not like pepe “le phew” at all! and why are you being so rude about me now the walk is finished? you were alright all those times on the phone. oh and i thought you were a tit when the show started and throughout the walk and before i read your comments on here i had changed my mind and thought you were alright but now i dont know what to make of you- some of what you have written (along with d.q) seems back-stabbish!
jack and me knew from day one we were mates and we still joke about the “romance” now and i think the night you are on about i was actually asking him what him what he wanted in a woman because i know a couple of really lovely girls that would love him and he can confirm this because i told him about a mate of mine called caroline a few times… not that its anybody elses business but his and mine!!!
And for everybody that seems to want to ignore gary, jack and adam I am going to say that for most of the walk we all got on- there wasn’t anywhere near as much conflict as was made out. apart from stacey’s pmt- but that hasn’t been mentioned at all.
also if jack really didnt like me he wouldnt have walked me all the time and we wouldnt have had half as much a laugh- but there was definitely NO romance and there will never be any.
I hope that has cleared that all up!!
by the way i now can be seen or written to on http://www.myspace.com/hayleyrentall
for all my fans out there
xx
I’m your No. 1 fan Hayley!
A.V.G.
J.B. I was not telling you to ‘be nice’ because I think you are horrible it was purley tongue in cheek, you seem to be a very nice person and I admire you completly.
I have emailed Vin but no reply yet so fingers crossed, mind you by putting his Email address on here he could have a lot of mail to get through.
All the very best always J.B.
this is my last message.
for all you crew and participants thankyou for an experience that i will never forget, good and bad.
the programme is over now and i bare no hard feelings towards anyone.
even if you phone just to piss me off and lie.
im now 22yrs and find that my life is just beging because of the journey that i have been on.
i have relised that silly petty behavior still goes on into our late 20s, 30s and so on, and i choose not to be one of those people.
the best advise anyone has given me was be myself and i have done nothing but that from a young age. that includes when i was on my way to scottland.
i hope you are all well and are heading towards another goal in your life, stop dwelling on actions past as talking about it will only stop you living it.
the people that were there know what went on and some, i must say are very two faced (you know who you are)i choose to be up front and honest no matter the concequece, i am far from perfect, but know i am a better person for that.
again ( crew and participants) i wish you all the luck for the future and will see some of you soon.
to the people who have been aproaching me thankyou for all your kind words i hope to continue to make you laugh in the near future.
with love
Stacey J
ps sorry about my spellings
Well put Stace!!!
p.s. you were the ‘looker’ on the walk!!!
A.V.G.
Hi everyone,
I just wondered if you would prefer to continue this conversation over in our forum. It might make it a bit easier for you all to keep in touch.
If it suits, feel free to pop over and start a thread at http://forum.unrealitytv.co.uk
Thanks for visiting. I am really enjoying reading all your comments, and it’s nice to get a look behind the scenes. It has certainly opened my eyes!
Anyway like to say thank you for putting up with me for 8 weeks to everyone involved, The other 7 walkers and all of the crew, expecially the gorgeous girls in the crew that all the lads fancied and that includes you Gee.
Wish I had lost a stone in a day as I thought I would, but a pound for every day we walked will do me nicely thank you.
Thanks for putting up with all my jokes and teasing. Thanks for acting like my kids some of the time throwing tantrums so I would not miss them. Thanks for turning me into a professional tv editor taking all the swear words out of the programme so my kids could watch it. Zoe said it was the best 10 minutes telly she has ever seen.
Thanks for getting up at 5am in the morning so I could go and watch Man Utd V Spurs on the route.
Thanks for turning into hopefully lifelong friends (so got to keep the healthy lifestyle going or that will only be another 22 Months).
Thank You for the Memories.
Gary
Gary
Can I have copy of your swear free tape so my grandson can see his uncle Vinnie?
Via Vincent
Thanks
Joy
Adam, get in line behind Hayley’s true fans!
Rich, mate!
There’s got to be more to life than squabbling over who likes a person you saw on a documentary for an hour or so!?!
True fans…are you for real!!! She’s not quite Gandhi or Einstein!!
you win bud, you’re number 1!!
A.V.G.
Adam.. you should be a stand up comedian..
good stuff guys congrats ~*