The Express. The 62-year-old music mogul, who is best known for producing TV talent shows including Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor, was told by a doctor that he needed to get his diet in order. Speaking to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres in 2019, Cowell said he was inspired to improve his physical health to keep up with his son Eric, now eight.
Megan McKenna: ‘You don’t have to eat boring things when you’re gluten-free’
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The X-Factor: Celebrity at the end of 2019 and landing a deal with Simon Cowell’s record label, Megan McKenna was on the brink of taking her singing career to the next level. But then the pandemic hit. ‘This is what I wanted to put across in the book .
. . You can eat pastries, you can eat cake’ Was the reality TV star – who found fame on shows like Ex On The Beach, Celebrity Big Brother and The Only Way Is Essex – gutted she had to put her music plans on hold?“Everything happens in a weird way,” she says on a Zoom call from her home in Essex.
“I’ve had time to do my writing and get all my material ready. It has held things back, but that’s fine – it held the whole world back, not just me. ”In fact, McKenna, who went to a performing arts school and released her debut album Story Of Me in 2018, relished the chance to slow down for once.
“I’ve been crazy for however many years I’ve been doing TV – seven or eight years. So to actually have time to do me… I was at home, I’m so lucky to have a lovely house with a garden. ”Passionate about cooking, the 29-year-old got busy in the kitchen instead.
She shared cooking videos with her 2. 4 million Instagram followers, and found her gluten-free recipes struck a chord. Diagnosed with coeliac disease – where your immune system attacks your own tissues when you eat gluten – and a wheat allergy in her teens, McKenna knows the stigma that can come with a gluten-free diet.
“People automatically think you’re fussy. They’re like, ‘Oh, you’re just one of them, you’re just gluten-free’. But no, actually, it can make me really, really ill,” says the London-born celeb.
“With wheat, I get hives, allergic reactions. With the coeliac, it’s more of a lifelong autoimmune disease. So if I keep
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