Why? SOPHIE DAHL, who practically halved her body weight, is busy telling us not to starve ourselves.

Cheers for that, Soph – and how did you go from a size 16 to a size eight in 0.3 seconds by the way?

“Starving is not sexy,” bleats Soph. “Don’t be swayed by some glossy fictional food diary that a stick-thin starlet swears by.”

Reeeeally? So, we shouldn’t buy your “anecdotal book about how to be slim” (her words, not ours) Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights, then?