The Only Way Is Essex star Lauren Pope is to have her breast implants removed on the next series of the hit reality show, according to reports.
The 28-year-old DJ and model recently found out she was one of 40,000 women in the UK to have been fitted with implants manufactured by now-closed French company Poly Implant Prostheses (PIP).
Department of Health officials have said that the industrial-grade silicone used in PIP implants should not have been put in to the human body, despite tests confirming that it does not cause cancer.
The Daily Star reported that Pope is deciding what to do after giving producers of the ITV2 show the go-ahead for the operation to be filmed.
Pope recently admitted that she was facing a dilemma over whether or not to have the implants removed. She said in a Tonight special on ITV1: "I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to have to have another boob job’.
"How can 40,000 women be in the same situation now, where we'll either not have an operation and keep them in us and think it might be fine? Or we have to have another major operation to get them taken out."
A woman who works for Pope’s cosmetic surgeon rang her last week to tell her she had PIP implants.
“It was about 10pm when I got the call,” Pope recalled. “Her phone number came up on my phone and I thought: ‘Oh God, it's not going to be good news.’”
Pope isn't the only celebrity to have revealed she has had PIP breast implants. Atomic Kitten Natasha Hamilton has spoken of her decision to have her faulty PIP implants removed in 2008.
Fans of TOWIE will find out whether Pope goes under the knife when the fourth series hits screens on January 29.
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