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As Gillian McKeith's daughter I grew up embarrassed because of my mum's obsession with poo, but now I'm having the last laugh with a Hollywood career on the horizon and a very surprising connection to Harry Styles!


Not many can say their mother is a former TV nutritionist, fewer still can admit to watching said mother earnestly examine human feces in front of license-paying viewers.

But Gillian McKeith's regular appearances on Channel 4 show You Are What You Eat, where she helped families with notoriously poor diets embrace healthier lifestyles, quickly became the norm for her youngest daughter, Afton. Appearing as the show's holistic nutritionist, Gillian developed a degree of notoriety in her own right thanks to her habit of checking human stool samples, believing body malfunction can be determined through the smell and consistency of feces. 'Or I would love to act in a romantic comedy and work with someone like Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Anniston or Adam Sandler whom I recently bumped into in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago.

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