I’m a Celeb 2021: Jack Vidgen reveals he lost 20kg after being called ‘fat’

Jack Vidgen has revealed that he lost an unhealthy amount of weight after being told he was “too fat” by an industry insider.

I’m a Celeb star Jack Vidgen has opened up about losing 20kg after being body shamed.

Vidgen shot to fame when he was 14 after winning Australia’s Got Talent.

In a scene set to air on I’m a Celeb tonight, the singer recalled a nasty comment he received about his weight when he was still new to the entertainment industry.

“I had someone when I was 15 give a message to my manager that I was too fat,” Vidgen told his camp mates.

Jack Vidgen in 2011.

Jack Vidgen now.

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Vidgen said as a result of the comment, “I had huge body issues, especially around 16, 17 years old.

“It felt like my career was riding on it,” he said about his weight. “So I lost 20kg when I moved to the states.”

Vidgen explained that he lost the weight unhealthily, saying: “I stopped eating. It was horrible. I tried to mask it with a healthy way and say, ‘I’m in LA and I’m doing the green juices and I’m going vegan,’ but really I was just starving myself and having a juice for dinner.”

The fellow I’m a Celeb stars were saddened by Vidgen’s confession, with chef Colin Fassnidge saying to the camera: “I was very shocked and a little bit worried when he said that.”

Jack Vidgen talks to I’m a Celeb stars about his weight loss.

Vidgen has previously opened up about his decision to move to the US when he was just 16 years old.

“I wouldn’t recommend doing that,” he told Who Magazine. “I think it was more me specifically, my circumstance, and it was mostly my own decision to go overseas to LA alone.

“I blocked everyone out. I’d blocked a lot of my family out, I left them all in Australia and went over to LA, and I was trying to hustle and put myself in this little bubble, which is hard when the people who love you can tell when things are going south.

“They’re the ones to pull you out of it, but those people weren’t around and it was hard, but I did have to face that and realise that myself and pull myself out of it. I was like, ‘What are you doing, Jack? You need to go back to Australia.’”

I’m a Celeb continues tonight at 7.30pm on Channel 10