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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Madonna to Get Nipped/Tucked
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It's a match made in TV heaven. Hollywood gossips report that pop culture provocateur Madonna will appear in the most provocative show on television, Nip/Tuck. Apparently, she's a big fan of the show.

Madonna joins a sweet list of A-listers rumored for the fifth season that includes Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, and the return of Rosie O'Donnell. I suppose we can expect to see a lot more celebrity sightings, not to mention outrageous cosmetic procedures, now that the boys of McNamara/Troy have moved to Hollywood.

This bit of casting news has left me wondering what sort of storyline they have in mind for Madonna. Will she be a patient? Or a romantic interest? In the world of Nip/Tuck, she'll probably be both. Will she play herself? Or a fictional role? My guess is she'll play a mysterious new patient in for routine plastic surgery, who has a one-night stand with Dr. Christian Troy but gives him a healthy dose of his own medicine.

So just what procedure will she have done? Maybe Madonna will get a facelift. She's over 40 and in good overall physical health, so she qualifies. Or maybe she'll get something a bit more exotic like mesotherapy, a weight-loss technique imported from France that involves injecting small amounts of medication under the skin. There's no evidence it works, and many experts don't approve. But she's Madonna, she lives on the edge.

She most likely won't be there for liposuction since Madonna barely has any body fat. The superstar maintains an aggressive fitness routine. She'd be a good candidate for a character so obsessed with youth that she becomes addicted to plastic surgery, a symptom of body dysmorphic disorder. Alas, they've already done that character. RIP Mrs. Grubman. Perhaps Madonna, a noted yoga enthusiast, will suffer from a freak yoga accident, and she'll need the boys to unhinge her Downward-Facing Dog. Or any one of the popular yoga poses found here.

Or just maybe the docs will open up her larynx and give Madonna a Linguistic Augmentation to improve her faux-British accent. (Note: I just made that up. There's no such procedure. Err, at least I don't think there is.)

What do you think Nip/Tuck has in store for Madonna?

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Posted by: Chris_WebMD at 3/14/2007 04:05:00 PM

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