Gogglebox favourite Amy Tapper has opened up on her hopes to use weight loss injections for the rest of her life during an appearance on Thursday’s episode of Good Morning Britain.

The TV personality, 25, rose to fame on the Channel 4 show alongside her parents, Jonathan and Nikki, and her older brother Josh, back in 2013.

Despite the family waving goodbye to their role on the series in 2018, Amy has continued to share details of her life with her droves of fans online.

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This included her impressive weight loss journey, which saw her shed seven-and-a-half stone and drop four dress sizes, to her social media followers.

Amy was offered gastric bypass surgery, which reduces the amount of food patients can eat and the number of calories their body absorbs, on the NHS before opting to take a weight loss jab instead to help her lose weight.

Instead, the star has revealed she would prefer to stay on Mounjaro forever, as she appeared on ITV show.  

Amy Tapper revealed her hopes to use weight loss injections for the rest of her life, after losing over seven stone on the jabs during an appearance on Good Morning Britain on Thursday

The Gogglebox star had previously struggled to lose weight before starting Mounjaro – which has seen her shed four dress sizes so far

She told hosts Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway: ‘It was just ongoing for years and years, I have been overweight since I was about six or seven years old.

‘At that age the doctors visits started and seeing what was wrong, and no-one could quite put their finger on it.

‘I started dieting, a number of diets and tried everything, and it would be the same thing over again, I was lost two to three stone and once I got to the three stone mark, nothing more.

‘I got to the point of being fed up, I just said, “I want to have surgery, I want to wake up tomorrow and not be like this, I can’t do it anymore”.’

When asked what changed with using the injections, Amy continued: ‘Everything, literally everything – people think it suppresses your appetite, which it does, but it does so many other things.

‘It breaks down everything in your body, it makes my body work like a normal metabolism would, my body breaks down now where it used to store just everything and I wouldn’t be able to budge anymore weight.

‘I was never a bad eater because I always had to watch what I was eating but obviously there were times where I would go out and eat more, and portion sizes, they were big and it would take me a lot to get full up.

‘Now, it’s one or two meals a day and I listen to what my brain tells me to do.’

Amy explained that the drug had helped her body ‘work normally’ as she spoke to the GMB hosts live on Thursday

Amy admitted she wanted to stay on Mounjaro for life as she feared coming off of it would see her ‘body start doing exactly what it was before’

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Questioning why Amy wants to stay on the jab for life, Amy added: ‘That’s what I’ve been advised by my doctor, because a lot of the way people look at the injection is that its a quick fix, but it’s not fixing you forever.

‘The minute I come off of it, my body is going to start doing exactly what it was doing before which means I will be on it for life.

‘Obviously, we’ll see as we will go along as we don’t know what will happen, but I’m n the highest dose at the moment, we made my way up very slowly, did it all the right way, say my doctor every three months.’

ITV’s resident GP Dr Amir Khan then explained: ‘When it comes to these drugs and how long you should be on them, you should be on them for a maximum of two years and within that time, you should get the support, the holistic support that goes along with getting down to a healthy weight.

‘It might be different for each individual person, but two years is what NICE suggests alongside the lifestyle changes and that relationship with food which can begin at a very young age.

‘We’ve got twin studies that shows genetics play between 40 and 70 per cent of a part in a person’s weight… when it comes to Amy, it might be different for her.’

Dr Khan went on to add that the ‘cost of the medication’ plays a part in how long the injections are recommended for use by the majority of users.

Last year, it was revealed that it would cost the NHS £122 per patient per month for the maximum dose of popular weight loss drug Mounjaro.

Then, last month, it was confirmed that the jab would face a price hike, with Eli Lilly, who make the drug, announcing that wholesale prices would more than double from September 1, with the highest dose rising from £122 to £330 a month.

Mid-range doses, such as the 5mg pen, were also set to jump from about £92 to £180, and the top dose will rise to £247.50 with smaller discounts applied to lower strengths.

Under official guidelines, only patients who have a body mass index (BMI) of over 35 and at least one weight-related health problem like high blood pressure, or those who have a BMI of 30 to 34.9 and meet the criteria for referral to a specialist weight management service, should be prescribed weight-loss jabs.

Last week, Amy showed off her incredible weight loss in a new snap this week after revealing she shed the pounds with the Mounjaro jab.

Amy revealed she was using weight loss jabs after she ‘felt there was nothing else I could do’. She started using them in June last year.

She told The Sun: ‘I’m fitting into size 18 clothes for the first time since I was 15 or 16 – it’s hard for me to believe.

‘It’s changed my life. I get annoyed though that some people call it the ‘lazy way out’.

‘I don’t want people to think that I’ve sat around for the last 17 years of my life not trying to lose weight. I want people to know that this has been my only option to get this far.’

She has been taking a 15mg weekly dose since February which she worked her way up to from 2.5mg.