Jamie Oliver reduced to tears as America's fattest city resists his latest healthy eating crusade



Television chef Jamie Oliver was reduced to tears during his latest efforts to convert an Amercian community to healthy eating.

The usually upbeat good food crusader broke down after he met serious resistance while shooting scenes for his new series, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution.



More than half the residents of the country's fattest city, Huntington, West Virginia, are obese but most were blatantly uninterested in the chef's advice.

Tears of frustration: Jamie Oliver broke down while filming his new series, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution



He sobbed as he said: 'They don't understand me. They don't know why I'm here.

A production source told the Sun: 'His tears was the lowest we've ever seen Jamie.

'He is normally so upbeat but the scale of this challenge got to him. Everywhere he turned, he was face with obstacles.

'People were outwardly hostile to some of the ideas he put forward.

Resistant: Residents of Huntington, West Virginia, didn't react well

to Jamie's advice



'He felt so alone and thought at times of packing the whole thing in.'



Some members of the local press warned him to steer clear of their community.

One radio presenter blasted: 'We don't want to sit around and eat lettuce all day.

'I don't think Jamie has anything that can change this town. He can try all he wants.'

Jamie was also left flabbergasted after he asks a group of school children to identify vegetables, mistaking tomatoes for potatoes.



The programme, which will air on America's ABC network, is based on his British series Jamie's School Dinners.

Confused: When shown tomatoes on a vine, some of the pupils thought they

were potatoes





