While everyone was rooting for Charlie and Grandpa Joe, we had a different hero in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - the rotund, chocolate-guzzling German kid, Augustus Gloop. If, like us, you ...

* Stick around til the end for the “Mangini is really just a momma’s boy” discussion. By now it’s probably old news to you that a piece appeared in Rolling Stone blasting Eric Mangini and the ...

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A 12-year-old girl who suffered years of bullying over her size was left in floods of tears after her school gave her the part of Augustus Gloop in the Christmas play. Lexi Shaw, from Chaddesden, ...

Augustus Gloop is most certainly a caricature rather than a character, but to his credit so are all of the kids who adventure into Willy Wonka s magical factory (other than perhaps Charlie himself).

Lexi Shaw was given the unwanted part of Augustus Gloop in a school production/SWNS A 12-year-old girl was left in floods of tears after she was given the part of chubby overeater Augustus Gloop in ...

A 12-year-old girl who suffered years of bullying over her size was left in floods of tears after she was given the part of Augustus Gloop in the school Christmas play. Lexi Shaw was shocked when she ...

A young girl bullied for being overweight was given the Augustus Gloop role in the school Willy Wonka Christmas play. Lexi Shaw was stunned when she received the play script in the post with her ...

He found fame as a child as Augustus Gloop in Gene Wilder's iconic movie Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. But even the most die hard fan would have struggled to recognise Michael Bollner when he ...

Derbyshire school investigates why girl who suffered years of bullying is cast as greedy boy in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - despite not auditioning Lexi Shaw, 12, who has been told she needs ...

The original Augustus Gloop from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory appeared on This Morning on Tuesday, 50 years on from the film being released. Michael Bollner, 62, is now a tax lawyer, and ...