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“Uh-oh, I can’t see any chippies around here,” says contestant Russell on the first episode of Channel 4’s controversial new travel for weight loss series Around the World in 80 Weighs. Russell, 36 and from Kent, is gazing out from his seat on a luxury coach into the neat suburbs of Tokyo – the capital of a nation with an obesity rate of 4 per cent, compared with Britain’s 25 per cent.

The reality show transports six overweight Britons to slim-waisted Japan as well as nations battling high rates of obesity