By Ekin Karasin

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Gogglebox star Amy Tapper has shown off her seven-stone weight loss after sharing the “life-changing” way she slimmed down.

The 26-year-old TV personality, who appeared on the Channel 4 reality show from 2013 to 2018, had struggled with fad diets all of her life.

Tapper, who was also on Celebs Go Dating in 2018, dropped three dress sizes in a year after working with a personal trainer and taking the weight loss jab, Mountjaro.

She displayed her trimmer physique while posing in a white sheer blouse and black trousers on a night out, sharing a snap on Instagram on Tuesday with the caption: “Thank God I got the bathroom memo.”

The reality star began using Mountjaro last June after a visit to her doctor and feeling like “there was nothing else” she could do.

Tapper started off with 2.5mg weekly dose, which she increased to 15mg in February.

“I’m fitting into size 18 clothes for the first time since I was 15 or 16 – it’s hard for me to believe,” she told The Sun.

“It’s changed my life. I went to the theatre the other night and when I sat down, my thighs weren’t touching the person next to me, or the sides of the chairs. I had room.”

She went on: “I get annoyed though that some people call it the ‘lazy way out’.

“I don’t want people to think that I’ve sat around for the last 17 years of my life not trying to lose weight. I want people to know that this has been my only option to get this far.”

Tapper explained that she “tried every diet under the sun” for years in a bid to lose weight and would get into a vicious cycle of dropping the pounds, only to put it all back on again.

The TV star lost three stone in 2021 but struggled to lose any more, claiming it would take a month to lose another pound.

Her father Jonathan Tapper underwent his own weight loss journey in June 2020, revealing it helped him beat coronavirus.

Discussing his coronavirus battle with Lorraine Kelly on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, he explained: “It wasn’t too great. The symptoms of high fever and feeling very weak, mainly, and coughing.

“I literally couldn’t move at one point, couldn’t walk up the stairs and if I did manage to get half way up, I was really struggling for breath.”

The reality TV star and the rest of his family all suffered from symptoms of Covid-19.

Asked if he thinks his lifestyle change before the virus aided in his recovery, he said: “In every way, losing weight is a good thing. I definitely think because I did, it helped me get through this horrible virus.”

The Tapper family were early fan favourites on Gogglebox, appearing on 11 seasons of the show.

Son Josh Tapper left the show one season earlier after landing a Civil Service apprenticeship in 2017.