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"Former Big Brother contestant Kenneth Tong has admitted that his comments on Twitter about &amp;quot;managed anorexia&amp;quot; were a hoax. The self-described &amp;#039;international playboy&amp;#039; trolled for attention online by penning wilfully controversial statements suggesting that all women should be &amp;quot;size zero&amp;quot;. Tong today said: &amp;quot;I think it is time for to come clean. The whole size zero thing is a hoax. It came about after an interesting discussion I had with a friend of mine. &amp;quot;The discussion centred round whether it was possible to go from nowhere to be a globally recognised figure within a week, harnessing the power of the internet and specifically Twitter, which I have always maintained is a better medium than national TV. &amp;quot;My friend said it wasn&amp;#039;t possible. I said it was. To prove him wrong, I decided as a hoax to promote via Twitter something that was universally appalling - I chose managed anorexia. I would like to make it clear: I chose the subject as a hoax as I knew it&amp;#039;d be appalling to men and women.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;The campaign has worked; I have been a Trending topic on Twitter for over a week. I am scheduled to appear on TV, [in] the press and radio shows over the course of the next week: Grazia, Telegraph, The Sun, The Sunday Times etc. Now it&amp;#039;s time to come clean and stop the bandwagon. &amp;quot;My honest personal opinion on managed anorexia is it is an disgusting and illogical idea. It is a mental illness. It cannot be managed. To all the people I have offended as part of this scientific experiment, I would like to apologise to you and, to show my sincerity, I will making a sizable donation to beat: the leading UK charity for people with eating disorders and their families. &amp;quot;Furthermore, I have decided to auction my custom Apple iPod Nano watch on eBay - the proceeds from this will be going to the charity, beat.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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