Fred Sirieix's new Horizons documentary, The Restaurant That Burns Calories, has sparked intense backlash with a flood of complaints to the BBC and Ofcom.
First Date's star Fred appears alongside This Morning’s Dr Zoe Williams, where diners in the titular restaurant are served a fancy dinner but then required to use the on-site gym to burn all the calories they had just eaten.
The hour-long special was based on latest scientific research, which suggests that we will eat 20% less food when confronted with the amount of exercise required to burn the excess calories.
BEAT, the UK's leading eating disorder charity, warned users against watching the series: "We strongly discourage anyone with an #eatingdisorder to watch the BBC2 programme The.