TV queen - and Love Island 2017 star - Olivia Attwood talks to Charlotte Oliver about facelifts and finding her voice. Read the exclusive chat on heatworld.
, having just watched her brilliantly unflinching documentary series The Price Of Perfection. While witnessing a live facelift, she comments, “It resembled someone stuffing a pitta bread” and now we’ll never look at houmous the same way again. Still, it’s testament to our love for her that we’re still smitten, despite the fact that she’s now ruined our late-night kebab order.
I’d watched a lot of surgery programmes before, so I knew I was OK with blood and needles. Some of it was obviously way more intense than expected, but I am a bit of a geek about that stuff. The surgeons are so talented. They’re literally slicing someone’s face open while they’re chatting to you. The worst thing was the smell – you just can’t describe the smell of burning flesh.
You’ve witnessed everything from surgery to live sex shows for your documentaries – is it hard to keep a poker face when you’re in the middle of that? Yeah, I think I would have found it too hard to say no. Also, it would have been fun to go back as this adult version of myself. I honestly don’t know what made me scream so much when I was in the villa. I haven’t raised my voice like that for years. So, I do wonder, if I went back in there, would I revert to the old Olivia? Would anything be able to tick me off like that? Maybe after six weeks, it would, but I definitely had a shorter fuse back then.