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Cliff Richard says he didn\u2019t meet Elvis due to his weight<\/h3>\n

Sir Cliff Richard has been accused of “fat-shaming” Elvis Presley during his recent appearance on This Morning – but did the Summer Holiday hitmaker go too far with his comments?<\/p>\n

Sir Cliff sat down with This Morning host Alison Hammond on Monday’s instalment of the programme to discuss his 65-year career in the music industry.<\/p>\n

However, the interview took an unexpected turn when the 83-year-old admitted he once refused to have a picture taken with Elvis because he was “overweight” at the time.<\/p>\n

When asked if he’d met the Suspicious Minds star, who died aged 42 years old, Sir Cliff replied: “No, I did not, I had one chance through a journalist when I was promoting Devil Woman in the States.<\/p>\n

“He said, ‘Oh, I know Elvis’ because he knew I was influenced and he said, ‘Do you want to meet him?’<\/p>\n

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“And I said, ‘Yeah’, at the end of the interview though I said, ‘Can we put it off?’ He had put on a lot of weight and I thought, ‘If I am having a photograph taken with him and it’s going to be hanging on my refrigerator, he has got to look good.'”<\/p>\n

“So I put it off and then, of course, he died,” Sir Cliff concluded on the ITV programme.<\/p>\n

However, Alison did not let Sir Cliff’s remark slide as she said: “You should never have put it off just because they’re a little bit heavier.<\/p>\n

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