It might be a bit of leaner Xmas for Santa this year as many are struggling. He might be lucky to get a few old carrots. Lol

I don't think anyone is over-eating just so they can fill out a Santa suit. I know I wouldn't be very happy to find a plate of carrots waiting for me after I've just delivered a bunch of presents.

Yeh Santa needs to do a bit more hoe hoe hoin and a lot less stuffing his face maybe more kids would get their presents since he can’t get his fat ass down a chimney most times.Edited 26-Dec-22 14:36pm

A lot of Santas do wear padding! not all of them are obese....Edited 23-Dec-22 12:54pm

He gets offered a Xmas dinner hopefully.

Why change tradition Santa is Santa it makes him loveable and recognizable if he changes too much kids won’t recognize him anymore

all good for Santa. Fat and Floppy

I think they're going overboard. Maybe if they ate some milk and cookies they'd be a bit more jolly. I'm all for healthy eating and all but they should stop with the body shaming.

What happened to all the ladies who have been screaming out that we should learn to love our bodies the way they are? They have been strangely silent over the remake of Santar

I never thought I would eat cookies and sweets because santa does. Santa wasn't about cookies and sweets at all. It was just a treat you left for him to get him through the night. There was nothing wrong with treats then and there is nothing wrong with treats now especially at Christmas. Stop trying to change tradition. Its one of the fun things in life and there's not many of them left now.

Leave Santa to be a jolly fellow, if eating cookies and making kids happy does this for him, then so be it. Happy Christmas Santa, ho ho ho.

Leave SANTA alone.....

I vote to keep Santa just the way he is. If he changed to skinny Santa just think of all the Christmas songs and stories that would have to be changed!

Be thankful you are still here to enjoy Santa and Christmas with your family.

For goodness sake. Leave Santa alone. What a bunch of wowsers. Is nothing sacred.

No way …..leave Santa alone……why are these so called …Do Gooders…..so intent on changing everything that we have all grown up with…..would a skinny Santa really be happy and inspire others to be happy …..I think not

Just headed to see what Kevin Bluddy Wilson might have to sing about this but decided against attaching a link..haha.

It’s important for kids to learn tolerance for all types of people, for all body types. Santa should not be fat shamed!

I think it's a whole lotta crap?

it seems that in this crazy world we are currently living in nothing of the past is sacred anymore, change is afoot everywhere!

Santa has always had a tubby belly, he has never been obese. Tonight I hear hat kids can no longer call their mums and dads just mum and dad. We shouldn’t be giving theses so called do Goodies any media coverage.

Leave Santa alone, please!! Everything seems to be changing regarding Christmas...the other day, I saw a very thin Santa walking around at the shops and although I greeted him with a smile, he didn't appear to be the jolly Santa that we all know...

No way give him cookies and milk.

I've been doping Santa since 1983 & used to be padded since Santa is cuddly when padded

tent to agree

Santassuppi as e to be a fat jolly man belly full of cookies and milk.

I think that we should leave Santa alone and mind our own business

I think Santa needs to identify as a gender neutral bisexual unicorn because everything seems to be politically correct and people can't just let others enjoy things

My first few words are What a lot of crap. What will be thought of next to destroy our lives. Santa has always been a fat jolly gentleman and I am sure children dont go up to him and say "you are so fat Santa you need to go on a diet." Why are there so many people who dont want to be happy anymore and have to stand on their stupid soapbox to destroy everyone else's enjoyment of life. Life is so short to have these ridiculous antigroups taking away our freedom, our fantasies and our enjoyment of small things. They should be more concerned about telling the governments to build more dams and to stop changing the flow of rivers and building houses on marshland and destroying trees so there is no moisture in the land so famines occur and again these antigroups say it is all due to climate change. Again what bullshit. Let Nature do her thing and not rape and destroy her beautiful work and we may survive many more milleniums. So leave fat santa alone. Watch your own weight and destroy your childrens imagination and fantasies .

This people who think up this STUPID ideas want to get a life or should have children. I hope they get coal for Christmas except they they would claim that Santa is antienvironment. Now they want the words mum and daddy at daycare band. When will this madness stopEdited 21-Dec-22 18:13pm

i think it is utterly stupid & whoever suggested it is a moronic idiot

What a woke World we live in ! Give me a break & leave Santa alone

OMG leave it alone,he is jolly and thats how the kids like him Killjoys everywhere these days

Santa is great just the way he is, back the hell off killjoys!

I think give it a break! The last thing we need at Christmas time is more woke nonsense! And as a medical professional, he of all people should realise that some people cannot help being large, as they have dodgy thyroid glands. How are such comments going to make them feel? For all he knows Santa might be one of these people.

Santa should stay the same as we have portrayed him for centuries. We don't need to know that there is a healthy man under that fat suit! I hope that there is, but that's his choice!

WHAT Margaret M said, THIS IS POLITICAL CORRECT B. S. END OF STORY.

Let Santa be as he is, He is happy as he is. I think the medical experts need to work on bigger problems not on Mr Claus's puku

He has extra fat to keep him warm as in some countries it gets very cold and it snows.

Some daycare centers in Australia...for pre-school kids, are going to outlaw Christmas celebrations, becs they said its not appropriate . They are being WOKE and showing a terrible disrespectful attitude to the Christian religion and Christmas it's self. How do some parents tolerate this BS?

He can diet after Xmas and and New-year, celebrations are over. Maybe there is a good diet for santa? THE GUTBUSTERS DIET.... comes to mind. Was invented specifically for MALES.

Hes not fat he's just pleasantly plump as he should be. We have to stop listening to these wankers who want to make every one's life as miserable as theirs

chubb

Have a bit of Christmas cheer. Too many people are grinches. For a child to receive a candy from Santa won't hurt. As long as it is only one.

they have distroyed so much of what we have because it,s not political correct go shuff it were the sun don,t shine and let them be kids for as long as they can

Won't somebody think of the reindeer!

Kids won’t be able to see a ‘fat’ Aunt or Grandpa soon.

Sounds a little woke to me.

Oh, PUHLEEZE, by the time the kiddos are old enough to understand things like BMI and obesity, they have already figured out that Santa is a delightful myth. Do the naysayers have to suck all the joy out of Christmas?

I just heard on the radio today that child care centres want to banned Christmas and Mothers and Fathers Day. Now they are picking on Santa. Why don't we cancel Cancer Culture.

What a load of hogwash! Next they’ll be saying that angels need to lose their wings! Leave Santa alone. The person that said that looked like he needed a bloody good feed!

What is the problem with a fat Santa??? Will he make the kids stuff their faces with junk... No. Why do we have people in this world that have to try and make a big deal out of a jolly fat man or for that matter big people. Anyway most of the Santa's I have seen lately were on the the thin side it was just their suit which was stuffed.

Ridiculous I could not imagine Santa being thin and besides how does anyone know if he is using any padding.

A well rounded personality and shape is required

A skinny Santa would look stupid.

Leave him alone. Santa has always been fat and jolly.

Keep him fat and jolly for goodness sake.

Problyba very good idea

We used to leave a beer and piece of Mum’s fruit cake for Santa and some cut up carrots for his reindeer. Cutting all of that out would be the demise of Santa!Edited 21-Dec-22 12:43pm

It depends on the Santa Clause but I also don’t like creeping clause

I would much rather sit on a fat soft jolly Santa's knee then a bony hard knobbly one..Oh wait I forgot you can't sit on Santa's knee anymore because that too has been taken away thanks to the woke police.

Tell Channel 10 to take a running jump Santa is PERFECT as is

I didn't see it (thankfully) but is it possible he's saying the people that actually eat and drink what's left out for "Santa" should be eating healthier? Wondering if Channel 10 put their own spin on it.

For crying out loud! Is nothing sacred? I, my kids & grandkids all grew up loving Xmas & the jolly fat man in the red suit & now he's joined the cancel culture!!! And you know what? None of us as kids gave a rat's backside about how fat Santa was, it was all about the fun, the presents & just the experience. I reckon if you ask any kid if Santa's fat, 9/10 wouldn't know 'cos they didn't look.

Wow is that all the experts are worried about, a fictional character we lie to our children about. How about over population, global warming, the war in Ukrainian just for a start. There are more important things to be concerned about than how fat or skinny Santa should be. Trust Channel 10 to come up with that one, hence why I do not watch morning tv. It's just full of uninteresting BS, I could not careless about.

You just can't get a good hug from a skinny Santa!

its santa leave him alone its all in the fun

Grab yourself some milk ?? and cookies ?? and be hohohoho....humorous like o'l ??. Leave him alone.

This Is Fat Shaming poor Santa . Little do they know that he is the right weight and height for his shape and he actually wears padding this time of year .Well done Santa and his helpers in the shopping centers/malls

Well living at the North Pole he needs that layer of Fat to keep warm, as for the Milk and Cookies may be OK to leave them alone but if he was to eat Carrots like the reindeer who lack the molars to grind up carrots and hence can ot actually eat them I suppose he would die from lack of Calorific Intake which every Doctor I know says is a very bad thing to allow to happen.

Do Santa how you want to. He does eat a lot of cookies and drink a lot of milk but if you want your children to be health conscious then help them provide more nutritious options for Santa. Just don’t tell other people how to do their Santa.

I saw that on the news. He does know that Santa isn't real doesn't he?! Some people are such fun sponges!

Leave Santa alone he is just BiG Boned. IN the end if your going to eat more than your body requires or eat food from the top of the pyramid that you NeeD to be eating less of you will get FAT, seeing a Mystical figure once a year doesn't make you go Fat, YOU do so take responsibility for your actions & Please leave the magic of Christmas & everything else that has been around for 100 of years alone, If you want to do something Protect the planet we live in stop over population & environmental destruction of this beautiful planet we all need to live in.

Santa has always been fat and that is the way we like him. The do gooders who want to change things all the time should get a life.

Leave Santa alone

If you real look at Father Christmas, he didn't exist as a person, until Coke Cola made him up for advertisement. So Coke Cola made him fat a person. So once again because of advertisement we now thing Father Christmas is a fat and jolly person. But once again there are people out there who think they know the best and there way is the only way, to live our life's. I live by the I live by the motto eat, drink and be merry as tomorrow my never come ????????

The PC world at its lowest

That "medical expert" should go out and get a real job. If that is all she/he can think of then she/he is wasting his time. You can be a big person but still be healthy and for heaven's sake don't waste your time checking your BMI (Body Mass Index) because it is incredibly inaccurate for many people. For example, I am 180cms, about 6ft, my weight varies between 83-85 kgs, my GP tells me I could do with putting on a couple of kilos yet my BMI has me at the well into the range of Obesity. Everything in Moderation and Father Christmas (Santa to some) has always been depicted as a Fat, Jolly Old Man with a White beard, the thought, fat police would probably have him as some sort of anorexic and female! Leave him alone, you killjoys it is all just ab it of fun and even God knows we all deserve a bit of that nowadays.

There are some real sad sacks out there that need to shame others to get a feel good sensation

Keep Santa as we know him

Seriously ?? more important things in life to be worried about

What happened to body positivity? Santa is healthy at any weight! Imagine fat shaming in 2022!

If Santa were a fat woman instead of a man, people would be putting out diet pamphlets and books instead of cookies and milk.

Yes, I saw this, first word...ridiculous, Santa is Santa and should not change! Again, someone wants attention with a few minutes of "fame" on TV and trying to ruin an age old tradition!

Honestly who the hell do they think they are. Yes it is far more healthy to be at the suggested weight for height,easier said then done in some cases, but it is your life, live it how you want. Leave Santa alone.

Every child should be aware that Santa is a figment of the imagination. Ok to believe in and ok to set out cookies and milk but not ok to emulate.

So...we're attacking a fictional character now because he's not "correctly proportioned". Next they'll be demanding that he is in fact, a non-binary trans vegan. Leave him alone FFS.

Santa can't be really skinny he must be at least plump! hehehe!!!

Why don't the do- gooders shut up and leave well enough alone. So Santa wears some padding. Santa is meant to be round and jolly. Leave him alone and get on with your life

I don't believe in Santa.Edited 21-Dec-22 09:17am

Santa is still the greatest lover of all time - he comes but once a year but when he does he fills your stockings!!!!

I agree Roy R the world has gone crazy on everyone having to be thin. From years ago if the image of Santa made kids overeat at Christmas is ridiculous. They leave the biscuits and milk out to sustain Santa on his long journey delivering gifts to all. And the carrots are a necessity for the reindeer. Obesity is a modern problem of today’s availability of many snack foods and drinks high in fats and sugars. People don’t have to labor as much with all our mod cons so overconsumption of our modern snacks n drinks have to go somewhere so it goes on the hips and belly. That’s my take on it. LEAVE SANTA ALONE

Channel 10 trying to increase ratings by generating (not reporting, how boring!) news.

You do know Santa ISN'T real don't you? Children don't know if Santa should be fat or in shape and they don't care. They want Santa to bring them gifts. As they get as old as those nuts, on channel 10, they like to be more fit themselves but for now leave Santa aloneEdited 21-Dec-22 23:50pm

Oh for goodness sake leave dear old Santa alone. I watched a movie recently with a 5 year old who said 'poor Santa he must be sick' because he was so thin. However, I suppose WW could use him as their next role model. lol.Edited 02-Jul-23 15:42pm

Who knows? Santa might actually want something other than milk and cookies. Has anyone ever asked him?

What will we hear next, leave Santa alone.

Carrots are good, and he should eat zucchinis too..

Santa has survived for centuries doing what he does. So called "medical experts" should keep their opinions to themselves.

Next they will be saying he's too old and should be clean shaven! PC at its worst.