MKR’s Pete Evans reveals he did a ’48-hour fast’

Pete Evans has courted plenty of controversy over the last month because of his alternative lifestyle.

Now the My Kitchen Rules star, 47, claims he did not eat for two days.

On Instagram, he shared a photo of the steak dish he cooked after his ’48 hour fast’.

He wrote in the post, shared on Tuesday, that he was ‘breaking a 48 hour fast with this deliciousness of grass fed steak’.

The dish was accompanied with ‘chicken liver gravy, mushies, onions and sweet potato chips with rosemary and garlic and a lot of sea salt and cracked pepper.’

Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Pete Evans for comment in regards to fasting. 

It comes after he snapped back at a Facebook user who claimed the My Kitchen Rules judge had ‘lost the plot’.

In the Facebook live Q&A clip, which was uploaded on Monday and has since been deleted, Pete responded to a fan who commented: ‘You have lost the plot mate, such a shame!’

While sipping herbal tea as he sat by the window of his Sydney home, Pete laughed as he replied: ‘Because I’m sharing recipes? Or because I’ve shaved my head and grown a beard?’    

The father-of-two went on to explain that his shaggy beard and newly-shaven head have been the subject of conversation among his friends. 

Pete revealed that one friend asked him, “How can somebody take you seriously, because you’re growing a beard and you’re meant to be clean cut?”‘

‘I said, “What does clean cut mean? Is there a definition of being clean cut?”‘

Laughing, Pete continued: ‘I will just clarify this, this is not the first time I’ve shaved my head and this is not the first time I’ve grown a beard. Just so everybody knows.’ 

‘So, if this is what you mean by ‘I’ve lost the plot’, I lost the plot [a long time ago],’ he added with a smile.

It comes after Pete was fined $25,200 for promoting a lamp that he bizarrely claimed could help treat coronavirus.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration issued two infringement notices to Pete’s company for alleged breaches of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.

The celebrity chef allegedly live streamed a video on Facebook on April 9 claiming a ‘Biocharger’ device could be used in relation to ‘Wuhan Coronavirus’.

The TGA said the claims have no apparent foundation and are treating the allegations very seriously. 

Any claim that references COVID-19 is banned under the legislation and the TGA has recently issued a warning to advertisers about the legality of it.

The fines were issued for the video and for advertising on Pete’s website.

The advertisements on the website claimed the lamp was ‘proven to restore strength, stamina, co-ordination and mental clarity’ and ‘sharpening your mental clarity’.

Pete called the claims ‘unfounded’ in a statement to Daily Mail Australia.

‘The claims made by the TGA are totally unfounded and we will be strongly defending these claims. It is now in the hands of my lawyers,’ he said.

Pete promoted his BioCharger NG Subtle Energy Platform on social media earlier this month, describing it as a ‘hybrid subtle energy revitalisation platform’.

Pete claimed he and his family use the ‘non-invasive’ lamp ‘pretty much every day’.

‘It works to optimize your health, wellness, and athletic performance by aligning and balancing the energy of every cell in your body,’ he said.

Pete also said the lamp is programmed with thousands of recipes with ‘a couple on there for Wuhan coronavirus that you may be interested in’. 

There is no evidence it has any effect on the virus. 

Pete was slammed by the Australian Medical Association for spruiking the machine.

‘This guy just doesn’t get it. Pete Evans is trying to sell a $15,000 fancy light machine to vulnerable and frightened people to protect them against COVID-19,’ a spokesman for the AMA said on Twitter.

‘He is not a doctor. He is not a scientist. He is a chef.’

Advanced Biotechnologies, the Massachusetts-based company behind the device, have distanced themselves from the celebrity chef’s claims.