"If your arse is too f---ing fat, stop eating and go for a run"

Gervais, whose star appears to be rising in Hollywood, said in September that he felt ashamed of his weight and added that said overweight people should be branded ‘fatty’ to cut rocketing obesity rates.

He said: “I don’t think there’s enough stigma. With all the political correctness now, and the fact that food is so refined, there’s no stigma any more.