The thing I find most astounding about this, is not the amount that they get off the taxpayer, nor the lifestyle enabling they get, but the fact that the ugly twat's been married 5 times.A couple with a combined weight of 54 stone and claim £2,000 a month in benefits because they are 'too fat to work' have wed in a £3,000 taxpayer funded ceremony.
Stephen Beer, 45, and Michelle Coombe, 43, claim they are too big to find a job and instead rely on hand-outs and help from carers day-to-day.
The couple receive Disability Living Allowance because they have metabolic disease - the medical term for a combination of obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Stephen, who has already been married five times, weighs in at a whopping 31 stone and has not worked in five years, while Michelle has never worked and weighs 23 stone.
They takeaway-loving pair were filmed planning their benefit-funded wedding for a new Channel 5 documentary about benefit claimants who say their weight prevents them from working.
Despite claiming they are unable to find jobs because potential employers are prejudice against fat people, Stephen and his future wife are shown eagerly planning their £3,000 ceremony.
The day included canapes and a buffet provided by their favourite kebab shop, and custom made outfits.
The duo, who planned the day from their one bedroom flat in Plymouth, Devon, paid for the wedding out of housing benefits.
They can be seen trying to lose weight before the big day, joining two weight loss courses, in a bid to squeeze into their made-to-measure wedding outfits.
But, they admitted they were struggling to cut back on the takeaways.
Stephen, who loves kebabs, Chinese food and spaghetti Bolognese, said he would like a job ideally "sitting down in a kiosk on the Tamar Bridge" or as Santa Claus in a department store.
He confessed that he once had his own cleaning company but, after a stroke in 2008, his eating spiralled out of control while he weighed 27 stone, and he lost his business.
The groom said he can no longer stand up for more than a few minutes at a time, and relied on a council carer to get washed and dressed - costing £8,000 of taxpayer's money a year.
He can only get around on a specially adapted mobility scooter for the obese.
Stephen is so big he even struggles to chop vegetables for his favourite pasta dish without becoming out of breath.
The documentary, Benefits: To Fat to Work, is set to air tonight and shows the couple escorted between the register office and Church by a fleet of motorbikes.
The wedding came to an abrupt end however as Stephen was taken ill at the reception and rushed to hospital by ambulance.
Stephen and Michelle are among 12,000 people who claimed Disability Living Allowance last year.
The Department for Work and Pensions statistics show the number of claimants with the condition has more than doubled from around 5,500 five years ago.
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What a job...
What a job...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Probably to ladies much like his latest bride...the fact that the ugly twat's been married 5 times.
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Same stuff going on here in the land of the free. Nursing homes are now equipped with barbaric beds and special shower chairs that look like love seats with a hole in the middle to accommodate these seriously overweight people. I take care of J. who is about 40, is 6'3", weighs close to 600lbs. He will eat 6-7 cheese burgers in a sitting, with all the fixings, eats whatever is left after the other residents eat and then orders pizzas at night. He has given up his life to obesity. He also has the gall to tell us that he pays our salary. (Erm no J., my tax dollars are supporting you.)
There are cases like him all over and now we even have specialized facilities which cater to the epidemic.
Hard to decide whether to be mad or sick at heart over these people.
Three of me could sit on one of these babies....
There are cases like him all over and now we even have specialized facilities which cater to the epidemic.
Hard to decide whether to be mad or sick at heart over these people.
Three of me could sit on one of these babies....
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We have a secretary at work. Walking behind her the other day, she was wider than me and my colleague combined.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”