Zack Polanski’s insistence that he immediately apologised for suggesting hypnosis could increase a woman’s breast size is being challenged after the emergence of an interview where he appeared to defend the claim days later.
The current Green party leader made the controversial remark to a Sun newspaper journalist in 2013 before entering politics.
He has since maintained he was misrepresented and apologised the following day, recognising it would be offensive.
However, a resurfaced BBC Radio Humberside interview from 18 June 2013 – six days after the initial report – appears to show Mr Polanski, then a hypnotherapist, doubling down on his theory.
“Actually increasingly more and more as I work with people, there’s starting to become anecdotal evidence, at least, of a growth in breast size,” he told presenter Peter Levy.
Mr Polanski said he believed “it can happen” and spoke of a “successful project” with the journalist, adding that “at the moment I’m not charging people for breast enhancement”.
The interview appears to stand at odds with claims he has made since becoming a Green Party politician.
Asked by ITV’s Good Morning Britain in September last year whether he believed at the time that hypnosis could enlarge a woman’s breasts, he said: “No.”
Speaking to LBC in 2024, when he was deputy leader of the Greens, he said: “I apologised immediately, the day after the article 11 years ago, to say that doesn’t represent my work… I apologised because I recognise that can be offensive to people.”
Responding to the resurfaced interview, a Labour source said: “Zack Polanski’s ego might have got bigger but nothing else has.
“It’s now clear that his pretence to have been misrepresented over his breast enlargement hypnosis scam was absolute nonsense – he got called out years later and he lied about it.
“You can’t trust a word he says – he’ll say whatever he thinks you want to hear.”
The Greens have been contacted for comment.
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