Harley Street clinic asked for scrotal botox jab
And other stories from the stranger side of life
A Harley Street insider has said she has received multiple requests to inject botox into men’s intimate regions. Speaking to OK magazine, Lesley Reynolds – also known as The Queen of Harley Street – said: “We get asked to do ‘scotox’, where botox is injected into the scrotum to make it less wrinkly. All I can think is: ‘Why?’” She also said a client her asked to remove their little toe so they could fit into some expensive shoes. “That is ridiculous!” she said. “Why would anyone remove a toe just to get into a pair of shoes?”
Earliest shark attack victim identified
A man who died 3,000 years ago with 790 injuries has been identified as the earliest known victim of a shark attack. Researchers from Oxford University have been investigating evidence of violent trauma on the skeletal remains of prehistoric hunter-gatherers at Kyoto University. They said the fisherman in question was seemingly alive at the time of attack, indicating he probably needed a bigger boat.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.
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