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Top slimmer loses job as credit crunch bites

Mar 1 2009 by Coreena Ford, Sunday Sun

Also high on his list of plans is running the forthcoming Great North Run — his fifth in a row — and he also plans to run the Chicago Marathon in aid of cancer charities, together with Stu Wheatman, of Newcastle, who will publish Charlie’s revealing autobiography, Slimmer Charlie, at Tonto Books in October.

Charlie said: "Chicago will be a big challenge for me but my outlook is you don’t have to be super thin or fit to take part.

"I actually did the London Marathon in 2006 and the fact that I achieved that should be an incentive to anyone else . . . I’m just a normal person who hopefully slips into society now and isn’t the biggest man you’ve ever seen in your life."

Stu added: "It would great to take part in the Chicago Marathon.

"We do need sponsorship, how- ever, to get there . . . who knows, maybe Oprah, who records her show there, could help?

"If a North company could come forward and lend us some support it would be fantastic."

For more information contact stu@tontobooks.com

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