A boy has turned into a 'real-life Simpsons character' with yellow skin, according to a concerned mum, after eating too many oranges. Charlotte Travers, 32, noticed her son Thomas was becoming a strange shade of yellow and took him to the doctor for tests.
The family were then stunned to discover that the problem was caused by the six-year-old's love of eating oranges and satsumas - sometimes a bag a day. Medical tests didn’t show anything sinister, but did flag up unusually high levels of beta carotene which is a vitamin found in particularly orange-coloured foods.
The family now jokingly refer to him as "Thomas Simpson" - a nod to the famous yellow skinned characters of the Simpsons cartoon.
