10:27AM Clem Bastow | If you can’t get enough of those Extreme Makeover moments where sutures are plucked from purpled flesh and deer-in-headlights eyes peer out from mummified facelifts, then strap yourself in: it looks like Australia is getting
a local version of everyone’s favourite trainwreck reality tribute to the society of the spectacle.
Dr Warwick Nettle, of Bondi Junction clinic Silkwood Medical, returned from a “short, sharp and shiny” trip to the US last week to learn the tricks of the reality TV trade.
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Details of the Aussie version of the show are being kept tightly under wraps, with the team members involved believed to have signed confidentiality agreements.
The series will likely air on Channel 9, and we can’t wait to see how down-at-heel farmers from the Blue Mountains region’s lives will be turned around by liposculpture to the chin area and laser-resurfacing to the back of the ears. That’ll show the drought who’s boss!
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