Zoella advent calendar reviews slam £50 ‘tat’

YouTube star Zoella has come under fire from angry parents and disappointed fans for releasing an official advent calendar that costs £50 and has only 12 doors.

The vlogger, real name Zoe Elizabeth Sugg, is a household name to millions of tweens and teens for her beauty and lifestyle YouTube channel, which has more than 12 million subscribers.

However, her usually devoted fandom reacted to the Zoella lifestyle calendar with an avalanche of “tweets and angry videos”, says MTV.

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Items inside the underwhelming festive countdown include a packet of stickers, confetti and a pen, the Daily Telegraph reports.

After some hasty calculations, it didn’t take long for turned-off buyers to work out that all of the individual items in the calendar could be purchased for less than half that price.

“The general consensus is, this calendar is a massive bloody rip-off,” says Metro. Damning reviews on Boots' website condemned the product as “ridiculous” and “literal tat”.

Yesterday, Boots announced that they would be slashing the price of the Zoella Lifestyle advent calendar from its £50 RRP to £25.

In her latest video, Zoella addressed the controversy, saying that she “loves” the calendar but had no input in setting the retail price.

The vlogger is also under fire for a string of recently rediscovered tweets posted to her account in which she appears to mock fat people, gay men and ‘chavs’, The Sun reports.

The tweets - including one in which she suggests that an unnamed woman “could have kept her legs shut” - were posted between 2010 and 2012, when the 27-year-old was a rising star. She now has almost 12 million Twitter followers. Sugg has yet to comment on the tweets.