Celebrity Traitors star Romesh Ranganathan has opened up about her experience when he was body shamed and received mean comments after taking his top off on TV.
The comedian was crowned champion in Friday’s final alongside actor Sebastian Croft, after they successfully banished Maya Jama and King Kenny from the castle.
Now, the star has revealed how he felt ‘horrendous’ for a longer time aftera troll sent him a nasty message online following a shirtless scene he did it in his show Asian Provocateur.
READ MORE: Claudia Winkleman breaks silence on picking Richard E Grant
Speaking on his podcast Wolf & Owl with Tom Davis on Friday, he recalled: ‘I remember when I was doing Asian Provocateur and we were doing an episode where we were doing a martial art and you have to be topless for that.
‘And I’d never taken my top off on camera before and I was really big and much bigger than I am now.
‘And I was worried about it and then I just thought, ‘Oh f**k it. I’m a comedian and I who gives a f**k, just do it.’
‘And then when the episode went out, somebody messaged me and said ”I was eating my dinner when I watched the episode and I couldn’t finish it after seeing your top off. Sorry about that.”I had about two weeks just feeling horrendous about it. But the truth is you are completely in control over how much power that comment has to you. Do you actually care about that person’s opinion of you?
‘That is the battle we’ve all got to come to get to grips with. That comment is not about what you look like. It’s about someone who has got a serious number of issues. They’ve got some sort of anger issue and are taking it out on you.’
It comes after earlier this week Romesh revealed his real name is Jonathan as he explained how his dad was ‘fiercely worried about brown kids fitting in in British society.’
READ MORE: BBC’s ‘Celebrity Traitors’ hit with setback as new tension arises
