For this TV host, it’s more like “Man V. The World.”
Food-centric Travel Channel personality Adam Richman has had his latest show, set to premiere Wednesday, postponed after a vile rant online in which he encouraged one woman to commit suicide, calling another a “c---” and telling a third user to “eat a bag of s---.”
The Brooklyn-born foodie started the brouhaha after he posted a photo of himself in a large suit he had ordered a year before he trimmed down some 70 pounds, along with the hashtag “thinspiration.”
Richman spent years as the host of “Man v. Food,” a job which required him to eat “72-ounce steaks, shakes by the quart” and other massive quantities of food, he wrote in Men’s Health.
He resolved to lose weight after the show ended and bragged online by posting the suit picture. But Internet users, including “adipose activist” Amber Sarah, told Richman that “thinspiration” is a term used by people with eating disorders, who use the word to consider what they eat and do as they try to lose weight in unhealthy ways.
He responded to the first comment with, “DILLIGAF?” an acronym that ends with a four-letter curse word.
It only got worse.
“Give me a f------ break,” he wrote to one user. “If anyone acts like a c--- I’ll call them one. It’s not misogyny, it’s calling a spade a spade.”
To another, he wrote: “Seriously - grab a razor blade & draw a bath. I doubt anyone will miss you.”
“Oh eat a bag of s---, dummy,” he wrote a third. “No apology is coming … Only f---up it seems was your Dad’s choice to go without a condom.”
The Travel Channel confirmed to the Washington Post that the premiere of Richman’s new show, “Man Finds Food” has been postponed. And Richman eventually did apologize, saying in a statement: “I’ve long struggled with my body image and have worked hard to achieve a healthy weight. I’m incredibly sorry to everyone I’ve hurt.”
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