Does the NHS often end up having to pick up the pieces after botched cosmetic surgery?
Yeah, and that’s the other reason for doing the show. When things go wrong – and it’s usually acutely wrong, so you’ve come back from your surgery holiday with no proper aftercare, and then the infection sets in or the complications set in – of course it’s your local A&E department that’s going to have to deal with it. Once they’d had their procedures corrected in this series, what kind of difference did it make to the women? Oh, massive. And I’m not exaggerating. Not just from a purely physical point of view, that we’ve corrected some terrible scarring or something like that, but psychologically. They just had different looks on their faces. They were happier people. It was a horrendous weight to carry around, this experience, and you can’t really get beyond it if, every time you look down, there’s a gaping great disfiguring scar on your stomach. So correcting it was a huge step for them in putting the whole thing behind them. You were in theatre for a lot of the procedures during the
