“Hey fat, when are you going to die?”

Akseli Herlevi is a celebrity chef and entrepreneur. Mia Ylöstalo-Kilpeläinen

Chef Akseli Herlevi hosts Ossi Lahtinen with The burger manprogram. The idea of ​​the program is to prepare and test different hamburgers in Finland and around the world.

Today, people are talking about body positivity, body image and healthy lifestyles. The themes stir up and generate even fierce controversies, for example on social media.

Has the conversation extended around Herlev’s program and does he get feedback from the series about junk food?

– Yes, sometimes it comes to that: “Hey fat, when are you going to die? When you do that, you’ll probably die soon”.

Herlevi says that people talk to him about healthy lifestyles. He admits that, for example, during a filming trip in America, kilos accumulate, because they sit in the car for long distances and spend a lot of time filming the show. However, the viewers do not get to see that after the cameras are turned off, the men in Finland return to their own healthier eating habits.

As a chef, Herlevi has managed to create a successful career out of his passion, and he is not going to regret it.

– I’m not a doctor, I’m a cook. The other thing is that I have decided to live this life and enjoy it – experiences and experiences. No one knows when we will die. That’s it, Herlevi shakes.

– It would piss me off if, at the moment of my departure, I still had to think that I didn’t do or say the things I wanted to.

Reminder to reviewers

Herlevi says that he doesn’t take nasty comments personally. Comments have no weight in his life. He believes that people who criticize other people tend to criticize the things in other people that they hate in themselves.

However, Herlevi has enough sympathy for those people who are more vulnerable to other people’s opinions.

– Probably the same thing with everyone who is such a so-called blackberry. There would be no need to tell anyone what size they are. In the same way, if someone is skinny or skinny, those people don’t need someone else to explain what size they are.

At the beginning of the year, Herlevi resigned from the Diili program and the Miss Suomi competition Emmi from Suurosen. Herlevi says that he is currently single.

– I’ve always said that if someone wanted to date me, I’m a really good man. I provide shade in the summer and warmth in the winter, Herlevi says with a twinkle in his eye.