Phillip Schofield was left horrified on This Morning as a guest detailed their ‘brutal’ double leg surgery to make themselves taller.
Roy Conn appeared on the ITV morning show live from America with his doctor from Las Vegas to speak to Phil and Holly Willoughby about the leg lengthening surgery.
On his 68th birthday, Roy discovered there was a way to make himself taller and as he could now afford to do it, he invested in the drastic surgery.
He “always felt like he was short” and wanted to do the surgery now he was in a position too, despite his family and friends being supportive of his current height of 5 foot 6.
“I watched a video of the procedure and it is brutal,” Phillip said, as they co-hosts tried to understand the logic for having both his legs broken and extended by several inches.
Roy said his wife was more worried about the surgery than he was, especially due to his age, but now he’s had it done he is happy to be three inches taller.
“It is extraordinary,” Holly said, as Phil said: “Like I said, I watched this video and it is brutal, how has the recovery been.”
Roy admitted that it was “definitely quite painful” but “you just get through it.”
The revolutionary surgery, that has been around since the 1950s, took Roy from 5 foot 6 inches to 5 foot nine inches, by lengthening his bones.
The surgery is around an hour and a half long where the lower leg bones are broken, but the lengthening process then takes up several weeks as they extend slowly little by little.
Roy’s surgeon said that he had seen a sharp increase in people wanting the surgery after the pandemic, potentially as people can recover as they work from home.
However, Phil and Holly were left looking squeamish at the invasive cosmetic surgery to get a few more inches, despite finding it ‘incredible.’
Meanwhile, today’s episode of This Morning was also cut short for the ITV coverage of the Autumn budget, that began at 11.15am. It is the first budget release since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister and since Liz Truss ’ controversial mini budget last month.
The show will be back in its normal slot from 10am to 12.30pm tomorrow (Friday 18 November).
