Season 4

This week’s houseguests are 38-year-old mum of two, Pam Soltani and 22-year-old student Charlotte Eaton. These two couldn’t have more differing lifestyles, but they both have the same BIG problem with food – and its zapping their confidence and happiness.

Pam learnt to belly dance virtually before she could walk. Her dream is to teach belly dancing classes, but who’d want to learn from a wobbly 238 lb teacher? Pam’s family live in the U.S. but they’ve never met her children because she’s too ashamed to get on a plane as big as she is. Despite making healthy food for her family and ensuring her children get their daily fruit and vegetable requirement, Pam’s usual daily diet includes a packet of cookies, bread, cheese and cakes.

Student, Charlotte, is almost 100 lbs overweight and just got a work placement on an animal reserve in Africa but she’s in no state to cope with the physical demands and the heat. If she’s going to look after wild animals she’s got to first tame her own eating habits. Pam and Charlotte are both desperate to change but the one thing that mums with tums and stout students have in common is a lack of discipline. A brief stay chez McKeith should sort that out.