A nip & a tuck

New surgery techniques, abs sculpted from fat, Paul doing a “Benjamin Button” and more! Dr Terry gives a sneak peek at Botched season 7.

- GENEVIEVE TERBLANCHE

Aesthetic and reconstructive surgery reality show Botched (2014-now) is back for a seventh season on Sundays on E! Entertainment (*124) at 20:00, as surgery BFFs Dr Terry Dubrow and Dr Paul Nassif have a flood of new cases on their hands, and a little bit of “don’t Panic, Pandemic” chaos behind the scenes.

“We started filming season 7 about two months before the pandemic. The pandemic made the season very long and very difficult, the most challenging season by far because of that. We were getting into the swing when the pandemic hit. So we paused production for a couple of months,” reveals Terry. “Once we got the green light, we did basically most of it. It dramatically affected us. We had to do different protocols, obviously, to be safe. The good news is that as surgeons, we’re comfortable using personal protective equipment. And a lot of the patients who had active complications that we had chosen for season 7 had to wait. So by the time we got to them, the complications were much worse, and it was much more difficult.”

But as always, there was plenty to capture Dr Dubrow’s interest…

INSIDE BOTCHED

What do the cases this season have in common?