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Tom Parker Bowles, son of Queen Camilla, asked his doctor for Ozempic, and his doctor told him to f— off.
Parker Bowles, 49, inquired about the popular weight loss drug typically used to treat diabetes when he realized he was “getting too fat,” according to Hello Magazine. Ozempic is not licensed in the U.K. for weight loss.
“I’m far too old to care about this sort of thing,” he recalled, “but I went to my doctor the other day, who I love, and I said, ‘Can I have some Ozempic, please?’”
Bowles is a food writer and critic who has authored seven cookbooks. He has also launched his own food brand, Mr. Trotter’s Great British Pork Crackling, which started with pork scratchings and has since expanded to beer with Mr Trotter’s Chestnut Ale.
Ozempic has become a hot topic when it comes to weight loss — with some stars confirming they have used the drug while others denied it. Chelsea Handler admitted during a January 2023 episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she unknowingly took the Type 2 diabetes medication, which is traditionally used to improve […]
“He just went, ‘f— off. You’re a food writer,’” Parker Bowles continued. “‘All these excess calories are coming from booze.’”
Parker Bowles pushed back, saying that he only drank three days a week. His doctor, however, was ready with an eye-opening retort. He revealed that the amount of rosé Bowles consumes each week is equal to about 18 cheeseburgers.
In a piece for You Magazine in September, Parker Bowles revealed how he ate growing up and the path that led him to consume calories as a way to make a living.
“I became a food writer because I was sacked from pretty much any other job I ever did,” he wrote. “I could string a sentence together and eat. Twenty-five years on, I’m still here and still loving every moment. God I’m lucky, and I’ll never, ever grow bored of food. Although, as I get older, I crave simplicity more and more.”
He also disclosed his favorite comfort foods, writing, “My comfort food is cottage pie with peas, roast chicken or an aggressively spicy noodle soup. Oh, and a McDonald’s cheeseburger, too.”
Other U.K. celebrities have tried Ozempic and reported mixed results. James Corden revealed that it didn’t work for him because even though the medication made him not hungry, he was rarely eating due to hunger anyway.
Stephen Fry said he found immediate success before the medication started to make him sick.
“The first week or so, I was thinking, ‘This is astonishing. Not only do I not want to eat, I don’t want any alcohol of any kind. This is going to be brilliant,’” he recalled.
