A fish-and-chips place in northeast England won’t be getting any orders soon from Victoria Beckham. Not after depicting the former Posh Spice as an “Anorexic Fashion Icon.”
Until Wednesday, Sidhu Fish & Chips vans carried an illustration of the fashion designer and wife of soccer star David as a skeletal Eve, offering a bitten apple.
“According to Sidhu’s Facebook page, the ad has been removed as of 5:15 p.m. London time,” said the New York Daily News. The post also states that the restaurant has had ‘no official complaint from Mrs. Beckham or her legal team.’”
Beckham’s team told The Telegraph: “It is highly inappropriate to trivialise such a disorder, and defamatory to be so thoughtless with a person’s reputation in this way, therefore we are taking legal advice.”
“The media hype … has left our staff dejected,” a Sidhu Facebook post was quoted as saying. “Our customers as ever have been fantastic, they’re the best and Wallsend is the best in the world, but when a joke fails to gets laughs then it’s time to change. This is the case with our advert as of today.”
Sidhu’s manager issued an earlier statement: “Staff and owners would like to state we recognize how serious eating disorders are and would never make light the seriousness of people with eating disorders.”
Beckham says her slim figure is thanks to a strict diet, not an eating disorder.
Thoughts on this? Charities slam takeaway owner in N. Shields for trivialising anorexia. Advert offers pizza thinner than @victoriabeckham pic.twitter.com/IzFTbnvAdX
— Nathan Lee (@NathanLeeTV) August 8, 2017
I literally burst out laughing. Not sure which is more stupid, the advert itself or Victoria Beckham caring enough to take legal action.
— Lauren L. Der (@laurenlder) August 8, 2017