Fitness guru Joe Wicks has appeared on Good Morning Britain to elaborate on why he drinks his wife’s breast milk.
Wicks, who was thrust into the public eye during lockdown due to his P.E. With Joe series, recently shared himself drinking a shot of breast milk on his Instagram.
The ‘Body Coach’ did so before heading to a Taylor Swift concert with his wife, Rosie.
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Wicks appeared on Good Morning Britain to explain following disgust and confusion, though some viewers accused the online personality of ‘attention seeking’.
Speaking to presenters Ed Balls and Ranvir Singh, he revealed that he feels he cannot be ‘the only man to do it’.
Balls claimed he felt he was the first to tell the world about it with Wicks retorting: “The first man to admit it on national television.”
In a sentence I apologise for making you read, Ed Balls went on to ask Wicks what it tasted like, with him responding: “So basically, it's like sweet milk. It's got sugary like vanilla milk. It's really, really naturally sweet.”
Balls, a former Labour MP who served in the Shadow Cabinet, said that he felt Wicks was brave for asking to drink his wife’s breast milk.
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He said: “I think you are really brave.
“I think if I asked my wife if I could have done that, she would have said 'absolutely no way'”.
Wicks admitted his wife had asked him why when he asked.
He did clarify his reasoning for doing the shot of breast milk, however, saying: “Just for a second, can I say, I don't do it every day. I never thought I would be on GMB talking about drinking my wife's breast milk.
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“Look, it was a bit of fun. There were two options: throw it on the floor or drink it. I had a really good night. I didn't have a drink. I felt energised. I felt pretty good for it”.
Viewers all sat more or less in the same camp of simply asking… why?
One simply tweeted: “Attention seeker”, whilst another rudely called him an ‘attention seeking p***k’.
Another said: “Unless you're under the age of 1 you shouldn't be drinking breast milk”.
Despite this, the view was not unanimous.
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One viewer retorted to those freaked out by it, saying: “Always makes me laugh how humans can get weirdly squeamish about a human consuming something naturally produced for human consumption but don't blink an eye when humans drink milk produced by other species which we are not naturally supposed to consume”.
Long as I don’t have to drink it, sure why not, go crazy.
Topics: Good Morning Britain, ITV, Parenting, TV, TV and Film, Food And Drink, Taylor Swift
Michael Slavin