Former Los Angeles radio and TV announcer Elliot Mintz, who was close friends with Lennon and Ono, claimed how they were “obsessed with staying skinny” in his memoir “We All Shine On: John Yoko & Me,” out Tuesday.

Their closet was organized according to waist size, says Elliot Mintz, whose new book 'We All Shine On', out Oct. 22, shares intimate stories from his close friendship with John Lennon and Yoko Oko.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were "obsessed" with staying thin, according to "We All Shine On: John, Yoko, & Me" author Elliot Mintz, a close friend of the two.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were "obsessed" with staying thin, according to "John, Yoko, & Me" author Elliot Mintz, a close friend of the two.

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A former broadcaster who was close friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the decade before Lennon’s 1980 murder said the lithe couple were “obsessed with staying skinny.” Elliot Mintz, who hosted several radio and television programs in Los Angeles and first met Ono when he interviewed her for her 1971 album Fly,

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's extremely close friend, Elliot Mintz, is gearing up to release a new memoir, We All Shine On: John Yoko & Me, that reveals intimate details about one of the couple's most surprising obsessions.