Channel 4 star Scarlette Douglas told she would be 'sacked' if she 'didn't lose weight'

Channel 4 star Scarlette Douglas has revealed how she was once told she would be 'sacked' if she didn't lose weight. The former A Place in The Sun presenter was speaking about her rise to TV, revealing that she had once worked in musical theatre. Scarlette, 37, revealed the nasty experience came at her very first job.

She said she was told: "If you don't lose weight, we're going to sack you." Scarlette, currently presenting property show Worst House on the Street for Channel 4 , alongside her brother, Stuart Douglas, then revealed she she ended up going on a 'popcorn diet' and getting sick. Speaking on the Bread and Butter podcast, Scarlette revealed she had also left theatre school with 'body dysmorphia and a slight eating disorder'.

Read more A Place in The Sun's Laura Hamilton drops marriage hint after new boyfriend revealed She explained: "At the end of a term and at the start of a term we would get weighed. And if we put weight on during our term break we had to go and see the nutritionist and they would put us on a diet..

..thinking about it it was really bad.

" She continued: "So I ended up leaving there with body dysmorphia and a slight eating disorder. I had IBS. I was never bulimic but I was so conscious of what I would eat that the minute I finished eating, I was sick or it would come out of the other side.

.. It was something that it took me a lot of time to overcome.

" Speaking about how she is still affected by her weight now, she revealed people often tell her she .