The actor who played the original Augustus Gloop in the film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has hit out at the decision to remove "offensive" words and phrases in the Roald Dahl book.

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 ...

As the obesity epidemic becomes a global health care crisis, German economists and parliament members have tried to come up with a solution: let’s hold fat people financially responsible for the extra ...

Philip Wiegratz (born February 17, 1993) is a German former actor. His first and most famous film role was playing Augustus Gloop in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.