Category: BBC Oxford 95.2FM
Date: 12.01.2006
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The phones went red hot at BBC Radio Oxford when breakfast presenter, Anne Diamond, asked for moral support for her weight loss challenge as she takes part in TV's Celebrity Fit Club.
Now, hundreds of listeners have signed up to be 'Diamond Dieting Buddies', both encouraging Anne to get fit and slim for the New Year and to lose weight themselves.
They range from portly men who have been volunteered by their wives to lose a few pounds after Christmas, to housewives and career women who have promised Anne they'll get to the gym, go swimming or even start trampolining before setting off to work or taking the children to school.
Anne has been presenting the breakfast show on BBC Radio Oxford for over a year, as part of the station's new, fresh sound. But she's never seen a public reaction quite like this one.
"It just shows how many people are, like me, battling a weight problem but are determined to make a fresh start in 2006," said Anne.
"Every week after Celebrity Fit Club (on Tuesday evenings), we're having a weigh-in on the Wednesday breakfast show on BBC Radio Oxford 95.2FM, when my dieting buddies will come into the studio to be weighed or phone in with their progress. I really feel that doing this together will spur us on to great things!" says Anne.
Anne's 'Diamond Dieting Buddies' include: Pearl from Bicester; Jeanette from Didcot; Gail from Wantage; husband and wife, Anne and Trevor from Banbury; Tricia from Oxford and Roger from Witney.
The BBC Oxford website, bbc.co.uk/oxford, will have a special page dedicated to the 'Diamond Dieting Buddies', and listeners can enrol themselves and keep up with each other's progress by logging on.
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