Danny Andrews, now 35, turned a legendary meme as an adolescent after describing his fish and rice muffins weight-reduction plan as a part of the 2007 documentary Child Confronted Physique Builders
A bodybuilder who turned an in a single day meme after describing his “fish and rice muffins” weight-reduction plan in a viral video has described the brutal influence his fame initially had.
Danny Andrews, now 35, was participating within the 2007 documentary Child Confronted Physique Builders for BBC Three when he unwittingly turned an internet star.
The then 16-year-old revealed how he bought into form, telling the digital camera at “eight o’clock within the morning, I’ll have fish and a rice cake … at 10, simply fish … at 12, fish and a rice cake” – in a clip which has since had hundreds of thousands of views.
Danny, initially from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, is now a barber by commerce and runs his personal store in Preston, Lancs. Lately, he is even launched a protein rice cake model.
Describing how the documentary unfolded, Danny instructed YouTube present Individuals are Deep: “As a substitute of simply saying I eat six meals of fish and each different it’s with a rice cake, I simply did precisely what they mentioned.
“And I’d achieved the weight-reduction plan myself as properly and it labored. And it wasn’t my weight-reduction plan ceaselessly, it was actually for 2 to 3 weeks. You’d carb deplete, get all of the glycogen out of your muscle tissues, then you definately’d carb up for 2 days and then you definately’d refill.”
Danny revealed that he doesn’t even like fish and solely labored it into his weight-reduction plan as a result of it’s bought fewer energy than turkey or hen.
After the video got here out, individuals began yelling “fish boy” at Danny as they drove previous him and he was even subjected to vile bullying at events when he was in his late teenagers.
He mentioned: “There’d be a load of lads sniggering at me and exhibiting movies at home events and again then I wasn’t assured so it actually felt like bullying. And I’d depart the occasion and everybody would chuckle at me as a result of I used to be nonetheless that man, I nonetheless regarded the identical, I nonetheless spoke the identical.
“I’ve bought fairly a broad Northern accent. Now, I’ve bought a thick pores and skin and I do know that should you put your self on the market that any person’s going to say one thing.”
Devastatingly for Danny, the meme would even put ladies off. He mentioned they’d cease texting mid-conversation after realising he was the ‘Fish and Rice Muffins Man’.
Danny believes it was as a result of the video was the one reference that they had of him and that “individuals thought I used to be particular”, along with his mates compelled to defend him.
Again in 2021, Danny met up with the Wealdstone Raider, who turned an web sensation in 2013 after a clip of him squaring as much as an opposition fan at his native soccer membership Wealdstone FC went viral.
Following the interview, Danny realized to embrace fame and chuckle alongside along with his followers, and is now “milking it for all the things it’s value”.
He’s appeared on a number of TV courting reveals reminiscent of First Dates, Celebs Go Relationship and most not too long ago Channel 4‘s Love Triangle, the place he met 29-year-old Bristol-based social media supervisor Sadie Bass.
He mentioned: “I went on Love Triangle to have a vacation and have enjoyable – and promote the rice muffins. I by no means thought that I might meet the love of my life on there, however Sadie’s completely my soulmate and I am so completely happy that embracing the meme has led to us assembly.
“We have been collectively for eight months now, however we could not go public with our relationship for the primary seven months as we had signed an NDA so to not break the present. Issues are going alongside rather well although since going public.”
