The mother of tragic Big Brother star Nikki Grahame is among campaigners calling for a ban on “sick” fasting apps that encourage people who want to lose weight to starve themselves.
Impressionable youngsters – many of them struggling with eating disorders – can download some of the “incredibly dangerous” platforms for free.
This newspaper signed up to several apps and uncovered scores of anorexic teens using them – some boasting of going hungry for five days or more.