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Outrage: 27-year-old mother-of-three, Kelly McManus, demanded the health service pay for an operation to remove her saggy 'mummy tummy' because it was depressing her
For all those thousands fighting to get life-saving NHS treatment, Kelly McManus's state-funded 5,000 tummy tuck is even more depressing than waiting for the letter that says you've finally got an appointment - in three months' time.
Given that our creaking NHS is so stretched the Government is reportedly considering sending patients to India to cut costs, this story beggars belief.
The 27-year-old mother of three children - the father is nowhere in sight - demanded the health service pay for an operation to remove her saggy 'mummy tummy' because it was depressing her - and blighting her ambition to be the next Julia Roberts.
Yes, Miss McManus has a dream. She wants to be a Hollywood actress - the new Pretty Woman, no less - despite the fact she hasn't done any 'acting' since she was at school.
The only screen time she's managed was on the Jeremy Kyle Show, but then one look at her reveals she'd be lucky to get a part on EastEnders as a dead body after an explosion in the Queen Vic.
Yet her doctors deemed she had a right to the expensive operation she was convinced would change her life. She even had the audacity to say it would save the health service money: otherwise, they'd have to pay for a lifetime of treatment for depression.
Our NHS has long been venerated in this country, but it's time they started putting first those who are truly in need. It's not just the waste of taxpayers' money that is so outrageous when elderly parents are languishing uncared for in hospital beds, and others are denied drugs that could extend their lives. What is most enraging is the culture of entitlement that Miss McManus embodies.
The part-time beautician, who earns 7,000 a year, believes it is her right to pursue her dreams, however wildy unlikely they may seem. Long gone are the days when people were brought up to believe they had to work hard to achieve their goals.
Now, thanks to Simon Cowell and the plague of modern reality shows, too many believe it can happen in an instant. Celebrity, fame and fortune, overnight.
Sian Green (R), 23 (pictured with best friend Keshia Warren), who lost her leg in a road-rage accident in New York, with astonishing dignity simply says she's determined the injury will not ruin her life
In light of Miss McManus's bleating, how refreshing it was to read about the beautiful Sian Green, 23, who lost her leg in a road-rage accident in New York. With astonishing dignity, she simply says she's determined the injury will not ruin her life.
What courage. Sadly, it is not matched by the courage of too many NHS doctors who, faced with insistent patients, hand out costly operations for gastric bands, tummy tucks and breast enlargements like Smarties.
As for Kelly McManus, there is still no Hollywood offer in the post, but you will all be heartened to hear the tummy tuck has greatly improved her sex life.
The Great British Bake Off got an audience of 5.6?million, up nearly two million - despite fears the philandering Paul Hollywood would be a turn-off for viewers. Quite the opposite, and those expecting a red-faced Hollywood were not disappointed. He was as tangerine as one of his orange chiffon cakes.
Marks & Spencer has long been our most loved family store, so what possessed them to use Tracey Emin as a poster girl? An unmarried, childless, free-loving, self-confessed drunk and narcissist who even Annie Leibovitz couldn't make look attractive. Maybe M&S is planning a new line in bedding.
She's still a Mel of a girl
A report says women feel most comfortable in their bodies when they're 34. Try telling that to Melanie Sykes.
A mother-of-two, and recently married for the second time, she did this lingerie shoot for Ultimo at the ancient age of 43.
A report says women feel most comfortable in their bodies when they're 34. Try telling that to Melanie Sykes
No wrinkly chicken chest, no stretch marks - even the tiny lines around her eyes look alluring. Who wouldn't be self- satisfied looking so sumptuous, giving hope to women everywhere - or should that be despair.
Perhaps the secret is not good genes and a diet of mung beans, as so many women who defy the years claim, but her 27-year-old husband. Ladies, take note.
Sentenced to 35 years in a tough military prison for the biggest leak of secrets in U.S. history, Bradley Manning says: 'Call me Chelsea.'
The whistle blower/traitor is demanding hormone therapy to switch gender, with some suspecting it's just a ploy to get into a more lenient women's prison. Has Brad not seen Prisoner: Cell Block H? Rita the Beater would eat him alive.
Animal lover Brian May says those who support the badger cull are the moral equivalent of a paedophile ring, and are leading us down a path that will end up with the burning of witches. No wonder he's upset. With that mad mane of grey hair and his swivel eyes, he'd be first on the stake.
They have raised five children together and have 13 grandchildren, yet Amanda Vickers agreed to marry Graham Nield only after he won 6.6?million on the Lottery. 'It isn't because you've won the money, it's because I love you,' she said when he proposed. Doesn't he know the quickest way to have a small fortune is to start with a large one?
Bea spends a lot of time spending
Despite the fact she's spent the summer enjoying numerous holidays, Prince Andrew still boasts on his website that his daughter Beatrice 'works full-time in finance'. So that's what running up enormous credit card bills means.
Despite the fact she's spent the summer enjoying numerous holidays, Prince Andrew still boasts on his website that his daughter Beatrice 'works full-time in finance'
What an own-goal for the police
The police and Crown Prosecution Service will now prosecute anyone who chants homophobic abuse at football players in the Premier League, and they will be banned from matches for three years. How odd that the police do so little to protect children from such bullying yet spend a fortune on protecting millionaires - not one of whom has come out as gay.
Say what you like about Heather Mills, and I have, it's admirable that she's just won silver for GB in the slalom at the Winter Games in New Zealand. She may have milked Paul McCartney for millions, but at least she's grabbed them and run - and got on with her life.
The eternally youthful Nancy Dell'Olio is photographed with a bare patch on the crown of her head, the result, it's said, of years of using hair extensions. Equality at last. There was a time when only men went bald.
Marrying for the second time, Emma Noble says she wanted a low-key wedding, nothing showy. Venue, Canterbury Cathedral; bridesmaids, four; guests, 100; Austrian tenor flown in from Salzburg; diamond-encrusted wedding dress; spread in Hello! magazine. The mind boggles how low-key it will be next time.
Westminster Noticeboard...
- Sunburnt, paunchy and with wet hair exposing his bald patch, the Prime Minister's appearance on a beach in Cornwall achieved his ultimate ambition: finally, Dave looked like one of us. Not so much a Tory toff, just a middle-aged dad wriggling into his swimmers with a Mickey Mouse towel wrapped around him to protect his dignity. He was spotted carrying a copy of Churchill's First War. Surely it should have been The Battle Of The Bulge.
- William Hague's first response yesterday was to tweet that urgent action was required over the alleged chemical attack that killed as many as 1,300 people in Syria. Does our Foreign Secretary view the deaths of scores of children as purely a social media opportunity?
- Boris Johnson attacked Ed Miliband, saying he would never stab his brother in the back as the Labour leader did. Socialists such as Ed have no family values, the London Mayor harrumphed. No doubt his betrayed wife Marina (pictured with Boris) choked on her cornflakes reading that.
- Less than half of Labour supporters think Ed Miliband will ever become PM and view his Shadow Cabinet as sluggish. A new report reveals snails travel 3ft in an hour and prefer to move in each other's slimy trails. At this rate, they'll take over Labour's front bench.
- Why the outrage over London's transport guru Sir Peter Hendy's affair with a 140-a-night prostitute? After all, he was knighted for services to the community. n?The Office of Fair Trading has slammed retailers for making false claims about their wares - I've slipped them a copy of the 2010 Tory manifesto.
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