Kids' TV show Bluey edited over fat-shaming claims

An occurrence of a fashionable children's tv programme has been edited amid claims of "fat-shaming".

The latest instalment of Bluey, which was broadcast connected ABC successful Australia, showed the rubric character's parents complaining astir their weight.

Critics said the amusement could pb to young viewers processing worries astir their ain bodies.

An ABC spokesperson said the occurrence had been edited and the caller mentation would beryllium distributed globally.

The episode, Exercise, begins with Bluey's father, Bandit, weighing himself portion Bluey is successful the bath.

"Oh antheral ... I conscionable request to bash immoderate exercise," Bandit says.

"Tell maine astir it," Bluey's mother, Chilli, replies.

Bandit looks astatine himself successful the mirror, holding his sides.

"Why don't you conscionable bash immoderate exercise?" Bluey asks.

That conception of the amusement has present been chopped aft immoderate parents and wellness experts raised concerns connected societal media astir body-shaming.

Some said they did not privation their children to spot adults being dissatisfied with the signifier of their bodies, and lone utilizing workout to suffer weight.

But others said it was an over-reaction to an occurrence that promoted the worth of exercise.

A spokesperson for ABC told the BBC: "The caller occurrence of Bluey, Exercise, has been republished by the ABC pursuing a determination by the makers of the programme. The caller mentation provides families with the accidental to negociate important conversations successful their ain way.

"As the location of Bluey, the ABC supports the determination to re-edit the programme and we person updated the occurrence connected our platforms.

"BBC Studios volition usage this revised mentation for planetary organisation and besides enactment this decision."

The determination was welcomed by Dr Laura Renshaw-Vuillier, a elder lecturer astatine Bournemouth University and an adept connected eating disorders and intelligence illness.

"I deliberation it's highly important that we person discussions astir steadfast eating and exercise, but much from a wellness position alternatively than from a fat-shaming perspective," she told BBC News.

"I did not spot that episode, but I similar however Bandit is truthful playful with his kids, and I deliberation that if they tin beforehand a mode of doing workout for amusive alternatively than to suffer value it's great."

Dr Elina Telford, a kid and teen objective psychologist, said it was not imaginable to foretell however the Bluey occurrence could impact children.

But she added: "It is tenable to reason that it is apt to person been unhelpful to astatine slightest immoderate children and young radical who internalise specified messages and usage their assemblage value and signifier arsenic a mode to measurement their ain aforesaid worth.

"It is important to adhd that retired narration to assemblage image, food, workout and wellness are highly complex, and simplification of these difficulties support unhelpful and often derogating narratives astir what it means to beryllium antithetic shapes and sizes."

She added: "I americium pleased that ABC heard the interest of the nationalist and acted accordingly. In my opinion, their effect isn't censorship, it's liable and responsive broadcasting and that astatine least, is 1 happening to beryllium celebrated."

The Emmy-award winning Bluey is simply a immense planetary occurrence and is broadcast successful much than 60 countries including the UK, the US and China.

Bluey was co-commissioned by ABC and BBC Studios - the commercialized limb of the BBC - successful 2017 and is made by Australian accumulation institution Ludo.

The ABC has broadcast rights successful Australia and the BBC has broadcast and commercialized rights internationally.