In recent months we have watched Fern Britton’s dramatic weight loss and were told by her representative that “Fern is happy to say that her weight loss is a consequence of healthy diet and exercise.”

Now Ms. Britton has said “As I know, many people are interested in my weight loss over the past two years. As interest is so high, I am making public, as a personal choice, that I had a gastric band operation two years ago.”

Ms. Britton, who is coincidentally the face of Ryvita, gave an exclusive interview recently to a popular woman’s magazine and even showed a plan of her healthy diet and told of how she’d lost the weight, but conveniently, there was no mention of the surgery she had partaken.

I don’t know who is to blame for the lies, but I for one feel cheated. We all know you lose weight from healthy eating, cutting down on the fat and taking exercise but having a gastric band is something else.

Ms. Britton should have come clean from the start, how let down do you feel by her secrecy?