Most people who watch Ed Gamble host The Traitors: Uncloaked will never imagine a 19-stone college student who disregards his type 1 diabetes diagnosis, eats and drinks all night long, and does, in his own words, “the bare minimum to stay alive.” There was such a version. Not too long ago, either. As a teenager, Gamble received a type 1 diabetes diagnosis. By the time he got to college, his weight had increased in that gradual, nearly undetectable manner that happens when a person stops taking care of themselves. It wasn’t a casual overindulgence. He characterized it as binge eating,…
Author: Tiffany Vincent
Tiffany Vincent
Tiffany Vincent is a food and lifestyle writer with a particular weakness for anything that comes out of a British kitchen. She's spent years eating her way across the UK — from roadside chippies to countryside gastropubs — and writing about what she finds there with the kind of honest enthusiasm that doesn't require a Michelin star to appreciate good food.At Friar Street Kitchen, Tiffany covers everything from everyday cooking questions and British supermarket staples to the bigger conversations happening around food, health, and how we eat. Her writing tends to start in the kitchen and end up somewhere more interesting — because that's usually where food takes you if you pay attention.When she's not testing recipes or digging into the latest food trend, she's probably debating the correct way to make a proper cup of tea.
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Luke Humphries seldom allows himself to forget one particular moment. He felt his chest tighten, his breathing become shallow, and a wave of fear sweep over him as he stood at the oche, the dart throwing line. He believed he was experiencing a heart attack. He was in his mid-twenties. Technically, he was a professional athlete, but his physique didn’t exactly fit that description. Nobody anticipated the turning point that resulted from that terrifying incident and the peculiar silence of the pandemic lockdown, at least not until the trophies began to pile up. Beginning in 2021, Humphries lost four to…
Last week, a number stealthily moved through the group of endocrinologists and diabetes researchers in a Milan conference hall, seemingly surprising almost everyone. Twenty-three percent. When taking the highest dosage of Eli Lilly’s experimental combination therapy, which combines the already potent Mounjaro ingredient tirzepatide with an experimental substance called eloralintide, participants lost that much body weight on average. The figure felt almost overwhelming to a field that had spent years celebrating double-digit percentage losses as a ceiling. The information is from a 48-week Phase 2b study that included 367 adults with type 2 diabetes and obesity, a group that has…
Finding out that a beverage you’ve been packing in your gym bag for years—one that’s practically synonymous with sweaty sidelines and youth soccer competitions—has been subtly recalled across 37 states is almost disorienting. And yet, here we are. PepsiCo confirmed last week that over 122,000 Gatorade cases are being voluntarily removed from shelves because of food dye, not contamination or bacteria. Specifically, yellow dye. It appears that the dye was present in the bottles from the beginning, but it was never stated on the label. The recall includes four types of 28-ounce Gatorade bottles—Lemon Lime, Lemon Lime Zero, Orange, and…
When someone returns after a long absence and is greeted with remarks about their waist size, it can be subtly upsetting. That’s exactly what Steven R. McQueen did at the Forever Mystic Falls Fan Meet 7 in Paris at the beginning of October 2026. Within hours, the clips were making the rounds online with a familiar, ugly energy that the internet has never quite been able to shake. Some fans who remembered the slender, dark-haired teenager from The Vampire Diaries’ early seasons hardly recognized McQueen, who played Jeremy Gilbert for more than ten years. The comparison images began to show…
If you weren’t paying close attention, you might have missed the moment when Emeli Sandé appeared significantly different as she walked down a red carpet. Yes, she’s slimmer, but it goes beyond that. Somehow lighter. It was the kind of physical change that doesn’t result from a six-week fitness program or a crash diet. It originated from something more difficult to sell and package: truly reassembling herself. There was no announcement of Sandé’s weight loss. There was neither a before-and-after spread in a glossy magazine nor a promotional interview with a smoothie company. It occurred in silence, almost as a…
There are actors you genuinely wonder about, and there are others who simply vanish once the cameras stop. The second type was Dennis Haskins. Fans who grew up watching Saved by the Bell noticed a change for years; the man wearing the big smile was still there, but his appearance had changed. heavier. slower. It’s the kind of difference that causes you to stop in the middle of scrolling and experience a slight, unpleasant feeling that you can’t quite pinpoint. Long before anyone knew the whole story, Dennis Haskins’ weight gain became a subject of quiet, awkward discussion on the…
The way people on the internet determine that a woman’s body has changed and then decide that it needs to be explained is almost reflexive. One of the most recent victims of that specific type of online attention is Amelia Dimoldenberg, the dry-witted British creator of the hugely successful YouTube series Chicken Shop Date. Even though Dimoldenberg has never made her body a talking point, the word “weight” automatically comes up when you search for her name. Never once. As it happens, the silence says more than any words could. Dimolendenberg’s entire career was built on her deadpan delivery and…
Observing someone come into their own—quietly, slowly, and without any official announcement—feels more captivating than any planned comeback narrative. That’s precisely what Phoebe Burgess has been doing. The 36-year-old journalist and podcast host has looked noticeably thinner over the last few months, and the internet has naturally expressed concerns. It began in a rather low-key manner. Phoebe shared a brief fashion video on her Instagram earlier this year. It featured her cycling through coats and leather jackets in front of the mirror while trying on a variety of Zara jackets, including wide-leg jeans fastened with a thick brown leather belt.…
Pat McAfee has never been one to act covertly. The man’s career was built on volume—literal volume, the kind that rattles camera operators and shakes production booths because they didn’t anticipate a former gambler becoming the loudest voice on American sports television. As a result, when people began to notice that he appeared different—notably leaner and somehow sharper in the face—it spread as it always does in 2026: through screenshots, comments, and group chats where someone asks, “Wait, does McAfee look skinny to you?” He shed about thirty-six pounds. That isn’t a tabloid estimate or a rumor. It’s the type…