‘Body training specialist’ Ashy Bines has been found to have stolen at least 10 of the clean eating recipes found in her online products from other food blogs and websites.
The 26-year-old Gold Coast native rose to online fame following the release of her popular 12 week body challenge program and diet plans.
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However it has now come to light that the program may not be as original as first thought.
Ashy has today been forced to respond to ‘online theft’ allegations after a YouTube poster put together a video claiming that many of the ‘original’ recipes on Ashy’s site bore strong similarities to those found on another health and fitness blog.
Ashy fell short of apologising to her million plus social media followers and instead claims that she chose to outsource the recipe finding tasks to a qualified nutritionist in order to provide her fans with expert advice.
"It's recently come to my attention that some of these recipes were not original at all and have been copied from other sources. This was never my intention and it really sucks that these things can happen. Unfortunately I may have been too naive to think that I wouldn't have to check the origins of each recipe, instead trusting that the work would be completed in an honest and professional manner," Ashy says in a video response to the scandal.
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