The great weight escape! 50 stone Briton, a takeaway food app addict

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After being trapped indoors for long five years following addiction to a takeaway food app, doctors decided to help Jason Holton, 30, of Camberley, Surrey.

Holton was hoisted out of his third-floor bedroom by a crane so that doctors could treat him. His weight, reportedly, rocketed up after developing an addiction to fast food. A Sun report said he also had chocolate, crisps, sandwiches and fizzy drink in 10,000-calorie eating marathons.

“I had eaten to a point where I suddenly couldn’t move an inch,” the Sun quoted him as saying from the hospital bed. “And I was happy to stay there without calling for help. “I left myself to die and waited for my heart to give up. I felt there was nothing left in life for me.”


Reports say a giant crane was needed to lift the 50 stone man out in an operation that took seven hours. Rescuers squeezed him out of his window.

More than 30 firemen lined the street outside a row of shops Jason lives above with his mum. “It was amazing, because it was the first time in six years I’d experienced fresh air. I was given codeine to take away the pain from the crane straps, but all I remember is the breath of fresh air and the breeze rushing over my body. There was a risk I wouldn’t survive the lift. There were issues with my oxygen levels, but I told my rescuers to go ahead — or else I’d only end up dying inside my flat,” he said.


Jason became Britain’s fattest man after 65 stone Carl Thompson, 33, of Dover, Kent, died in 2015. Jason survives on benefits and has never worked.