Dating site kicks off fattiesToo much Xmas stuffingBy David NealMonday, 4 January 2010, 14:15ONLINE DATING WEBSITE Beautifulpeople.com has kicked "5,000 festive fatties" off its service.The singles' site, which presumably is aiming to develop some sort of master race, decided to kick weight gainers off its pages after after Christmas. It already enforces a no ugly people policy and forces prospective members to undergo peer scrutiny to join. Now it has trimmed its less trim members.Experts reckon that we eat as much as four times as usual during the holiday season, which goes some way to explain the boom in gym memberships and self-loathing during the month of January. Rather than wait for its members to hit the treadmill, however, Beautifulpeople.com chose to kick them out straightaway. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given their taste for all things bacon, the US, UK and Canada seem to have had the most weight-gaining losers.Greg Hodge, managing director of Beautifulpeople.com, said, "We responded to complaints by moving the newly chubby members back to the rating stage. This is the same as having them re-apply. Their re-applications were reviewed by existing members and only a few hundred were voted back in. Over 5,000 were rejected."Robert Hintze, founder of the feel-superior site, added, "Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded."Breaking the news gently to rejected members, the firm has recommended a number of institutions designed to help them get back in their spandex. These include Warrior Fitness in New York, Camp Technique in Los Angeles, NuBeginnings in the UK and Mystic Adventures which operates throughout Europe. They sound like training camps to us.What was it that Groucho Marks said about joining clubs? µ
