James Arthur has ballooned to 17 stone after bingeing on sausage sandwiches and cakes in lockdown – The Sun

The Say You Won’t Let Go singer revealed he now weighs 17st and is determined to transform his body to be the fittest he has ever been.

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In an exclusive interview, James explained: “I have put on a fair bit of weight since the beginning of the lockdown because there’s nothing else to do but stuff my face.

“I’ve got a sweet tooth so it’s just cake really. I love cake.

“I’m pretty much a vegan so I’ve been having the fake meat — sausage sandwiches and stuff like that I’ve been digging into.

“I’ve set myself a goal to lose a bit of weight. It might sound extreme but I’m 6ft 3in and I weigh 17st so I’d like to drop a couple of stone if possible.

“I’ve done a couple of ten-mile bike rides and that’s really effective. I’ve got a gym set up at the house, I’ve got a bunch of cardio machines like a treadmill and a Peloton bike.

“I want to come out of this thing in the best shape that I’ve ever been in, that’s something I’m genuinely striving for.”

James, who last week released his charity single Safe Inside to raise money for mental health charity Sane and the NHS Charities Together Covid-19 appeal, said he has been hyper-conscious about his appearance since going on 2012’s X Factor.

He won, but suffered vicious attacks from online trolls.

James said: “Before I was in the public eye I was never really a vain person.

“On The X Factor my teeth looked like a graveyard, so that was something I was always going to have to sort out.

“I think that makes a big difference, me fixing my teeth.

“I got called Sloth from The Goonies a little bit less when I sorted my teeth out.

“But I got a lot of stick online, which knocked my confidence really bad, and I still get it today.”

Last year, Little Mix's Jesy Nelson, who won The X Factor with her band in 2011, made BBC documentary Odd One Out, where she spoke about her own experiences of online trolling, which drove her to attempting suicide.

James says: “I couldn’t relate more to Jesy Nelson’s documentary.

“I was supposed to be a part of that whole thing but at the time I just wasn’t in the right place to put myself out there again like that.

“We both had a lot of abuse just because of the way we looked on the show.

“I guess we didn’t look like conventional pop stars and some people online just really took it to the extreme.

“I also suffered at the hands of online bullies, just as Jesy did, and I think the documentary she did was fantastic.

“She deserved all the plaudits for that.”

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