{"id":29221,"date":"2017-01-27T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2017\/01\/27\/gareth-cliff-rubbishes-women-fat-shaming-accusations\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T11:00:38","slug":"gareth-cliff-rubbishes-women-fat-shaming-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2017\/01\/27\/gareth-cliff-rubbishes-women-fat-shaming-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Cliff Rubbishes ‘Women Fat Shaming’ Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Afrer receiving backlash for sharing a meme some of his followers found disrespectful and sexist, Gareth Cliff has come out to defend himself. The former Idols host says he did not come up with the meme, he simply shared it as he found it funny. Gareth Cliff rubbishes \u2018women fat shaming\u2019 accusations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a meme. I didn\u2019t create it. In fact Republican Sen. Jack Sandlin of Indianapolis posted it first (the source is on the meme). It\u2019s meant to be funny, and if it isn\u2019t funny to you, then that\u2019s all \u2013 it isn\u2019t funny to you. Keep scrolling,\u201dGareth fired back in a lengthy post on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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Cliff went on to give an example of other jokes he has shared in the past saying he can\u2019t stop laughing at things he finds funny because some people will be offended.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t make me stop laughing at things I find funny (like the video of the guy guiding a lady over a flooded pavement and she gets swept away in the flood, or the guy who gets his dick set on fire)\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Gareth\u2019s full take on the meme.<\/p>\n