ROSEANNE - BARR BLASTS DIET INDUSTRY

Comedienne ROSEANNE BARR has slammed the "billion-dollar" diet industry for exploiting the overweight and giving them false hope.

The ROSEANNE star - who underwent obesity surgery to halve her frame - would delight at the destruction of weight-loss businesses.

She says, "If everything blows up in the wake of 9/11, the one bright spot will be the fact that the diet industry will be going up in flames along with everything else. Then people are going to be extremely thin real quick! I'm so excited about that!

"It's a billion-dollar industry that just uses fat people as lab-rats. There is nothing a fat person won't do if you tell them some product will make them lose weight - nothing apart from getting up off their a**es and stopping eating like hogs."