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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ben Bryant

The Liver King story chillingly shows how bad role models are manufactured

The only useful piece of health advice you’re likely to hear in the Netflix documentary Untold: The Liver King comes from our flawed hero’s gentle 13-year-old son, Rad: “Eat good food. Don’t eat Oreos. Stuff like that. And sleep, get good sleep,” he says.

A simple message – but one that is unlikely to set the world on fire. And that is exactly why people like Rad are forgotten and people like the Liver King are plastered all over Instagram. You too can have a body like a fistful of bubble tea, Liver King roars, if you will only commit to gorging on bull testicles and drinking lukewarm pints of blood.

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