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The real telly tubbies: X Factor failure's 83-stone family claim they are simply too fat to work

By Fay Schlesinger and Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:09 AM on 17th March 2009


They have a combined weight of 83 stone and claim £22,000 in taxpayer-funded benefits on the basis they are ‘too fat to work’.

Yet, incredibly, X Factor failure Emma Chawner's family from Blackburn are demanding more money - because they still can’t afford their calorie-laden lifestyle.

Asked why they don’t simply go on a diet, the jobless Chawner family who are so obese their neighbours call them ‘the telly tubbies’ insist: ‘We don’t have the time.’



'The real telly tubbies': From left, former X Factor contestant Emma, mother Audrey, father Philip and sister Sam Chawner


Emma, 19, famously appeared on the TV talent show in 2007 wearing a wedding-style dress made by her dad.

She was kicked off after the first audition, but not before the family were evicted from their previous house after neighbours complained about her singing at 3am.



Emma Chawner during her first X Factor appearance. The show's three judges, Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh, were not very encouraging of Emma's performance


Both Philip Chawner, 53, and his 57-year-old wife Audrey weigh 24st. Their youngest daughter, Emma, is 5ft 3in and weighs 17st, while her older sister Samantha, 21, is 5ft 9in and weighs 18st.

They haven’t worked in 11 years, claiming their weight is due to a hereditary condition.
Instead, the family spend their days in front of a television borrowed from a friend.



'Too fat to work': The family turn on the television as soon as they get up


Mr Chawner said: ‘We love TV. It’s on from the moment we get up. Often I’m so tired from watching TV I have to have a nap.’

Yet of their £22,508 a year in tax-free benefits - equivalent to a £30,000 salary - Mr Chawner said: ‘What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It’s not our fault we can’t work. We deserve more.’

The family claim to spend £50 a week on food, including chocolate, chips and pies, and consume 3,000 calories each a day. The recommended maximum intake is 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men.





‘We have cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner,’ Mrs Chawner told Closer magazine.

‘We all love nibbling on biscuits. I once bought some pears, but they tasted funny.

‘All that healthy food, like fruit and veg, is too expensive. We’re fat because it’s in our genes. Our whole family is overweight.’

Emma, who would like to lose 6st, added: ‘We don’t have time to diet.’

Each week, Mr and Mrs Chawner, who have been married for 23 years, receive £177 in income support and incapacity benefit. Mrs Chawner is paid an extra £330-a-month disability allowance for epilepsy and asthma, both a result of being overweight.

Mr Chawner gets £71 a month after developing Type 2 diabetes because of his size. He was on a waiting list for a gastric band last year, but a heart condition made the operation unsuitable.

Samantha receives £84 in Jobseekers’ Allowance each fortnight while Emma, who is training to be a hairdresser, gets £58 every two weeks under a hardship fund for low-income students.

‘I’m a student and don’t have time to exercise,’ Emma said. ‘We all want to lose weight to stop the abuse we get in the street, but we don’t know how.’

The full feature appears in Closer magazine, on sale now.


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[Ninastar]

Eww..

[arista]

They can Work.

[MarkWaldorf]

They have no time to diet, yet they can sit on their asses all day and watch TV.

[arista]

Originally posted by MarkSpears
They have no time to diet, yet they can sit on their asses all day and watch TV.

Well they can Learn and watch Ch4 Now
Supersize Vs Superskinny

[MarkWaldorf]

Originally posted by arista

Well they can Learn and watch Ch4 Now
Supersize Vs Superskinny

They're probably sitting there now watching it with their "microwaved pie with mash potato and chips" - they won't be learning anything.

[Tom]

I have an idea, lets save up all of their benefits for them and get them all lipo and visits to a nutritionist. Then we'll see who can't work.

Skanks.

[arista]

Originally posted by Tom
I have an idea, lets save up all of their benefits for them and get them all lipo and visits to a nutritionist. Then we'll see who can't work.

Skanks.

No send them Down Under.

[Fom]

This is disgusting, take away their benefits and throw them on the street, that will make them lose weight.
What a disgusting family, and I thought I was lazy!

[Novo]

It doesnt sound like they eat that much on a average day I'd eat near enough the same amount of calories

EDIT: never mind that i dont eat anywhere near 3000

it's because they dont burn it off though

[Novo]

They have all got that chubby looking face as well

And about 4 chins each

apart from the guy

[Fom]

Originally posted by .Andy.
It doesnt sound like they eat that much on a average day I'd eat near enough the same amount of calories

EDIT: never mind that i dont eat anywhere near 3000

it's because they dont burn it off though

They dont burn any of it off at all, if they went to work, they would burn most of it off! Thats why everyone else isn't that big, they are fat because they are lazy and wont get off their arses.

[arista]

Send a Van
and Force them to Work in a Chicken Factory.


It will do them all Good.

[Lauren]

They don't even eat THAT much, they're obviously missing something out from their itinerary to get it up to 3000 calories. They're the reason genuine people on benefits have a stigma against them!

[Nicky.]

To be fair, the guy isn't THAT fat!

You see people walking along the street day to day who are fatter!!

He could work- end of

[Novo]

Originally posted by Nickyy
To be fair, the guy isn't THAT fat!

You see people walking along the street day to day who are fatter!!

He could work- end of

If he was there size he would be a lot fatter
it's because he's taller

[bronaaaa]

If they don't work, how come they have no time to diet

[letmein]

Originally posted by arista
Send a Van
and Force them to Work in a Chicken Factory.


It will do them all Good.

But they'd spend all day eating them.

[arista]

Originally posted by letmein

But they'd spend all day eating them.

No it is a Place where
they are chopped into bits,
No Cooked meat at all.

[Sod_James]

What a load of crap my £200 a month tax pays for lazy people like them. god it makes me just sick to the stomach.

[Princess]

FFS fruit and veg is not more expensieve than junk food!!!!! And they don't have time?? What with not working!! The cheeky ****ers.

[30stone]

I reckon they eat more because thats not even that much i have 3000 calories regularly.

[Princess]

Originally posted by Robin-Van-Perfect
I reckon they eat more because thats not even that much i have 3000 calories regularly.

Yeah but you do all your sport,you probably need 3000 calories. They evidentley do no exercise.

[30stone]

Suppose, i hate people like this lazy and a waste of space.

[letmein]

Originally posted by arista

No it is a Place where
they are chopped into bits,
No Cooked meat at all.

Again, they'd spend all day eating it.