This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today, Tuesday, the 17th of September.

I had to think about that because somebody wrote to me the other day. It was a company, actually,

and they said, it's only 100 days to Christmas. I went, is it, talking to myself?

Because I spent a lot of time talking to myself.

So that's it, that it's a hundred days to Christmas.

And as far as I'm concerned, that means it's practically around the corner.

Christopher Eccleston, Doctor Who, is hailed by fans for his bravery

after he revealed how he was very ill battling

anorexia whilst filming the show.

Of course it was, I mean, people used to talk about anorexia years and years ago and

then all of a sudden it sort of went out of fashion because we had all sorts of people.

People, because it's an illness, it's a recognised illness and And it's a case of people actually went to hospital.

Because what they said, you would see people, there were two sisters.

One, I think, died.

And they were skeletal.

But they thought that they were overweight.

And we had stories of people who were making themselves sick so they didn't keep the food in their body.

It was just absolutely awful. And then it kind of disappeared for a little while. It seems to be coming back.

Gemma Collins. Actually, they're a little bit naughty here because they've said she was spotted purchasing fake designer stuff. She didn't buy anything. She hasn't got any money. It's a bit of a disaster, really.

And in fact, if you remember, she previously came under fire

for selling 40 quid handbags that look like Gucci for 1,350.

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