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Ed Balls to appear on “How to Look Good Naked”

July 15, 2010 10:24 am

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Mark Ferguson

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By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk gok wan

I’ve just had confirmation from the Ed Balls campaign that their candidate will be appearing on the hit TV show “How to Look Good Naked”. But don’t worry – this isn’t the start of a parade of leadership candidates appearing on the show like “This Week”, and host Gok Wan won’t be asking him about him sartorial choices. And to the best of our knowledge Ed won’t be appearing clad in any fewer clothes than usual.

In short, Gok has been running a campaign about teaching teenagers in schools about body image and body confidence, which got huge public support at the start of the year.

Whilst in government Labour planned to include this as part of PSHE, and make it complusory before the election before it was blocked by the Tories in the “wash up”.

Gok came to DCSF to talk to Ed about his campaign and that’s what will be on the programme next week.

So that’s either panic over, or a missed opportunity, depending on your point of view.

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