"... The diptych by Jonathan Yeo is a shameless headline grabber in which the entrepreneur is shown at an interval of 18 months, having shed three stone between the first and second sittings. The working title of the piece was Being Geri Halliwell. The work doesn't just lay claim to the visual language of Slimmer of the Year. It cheekily appropriates the religious archetype of the diptych (two paired paintings of saints are traditionally hung either side of the church altar) and the motif of nudity that signifies man at his most vulnerable and mortal, stripped bare before God, though this clearly is not intended as the mortification of Ivan's flesh ..."

"... Yeo sees the work as being about the “notions of celebrity, of pop culture, of what people will do to stay in the public eye ...”