Chicago's "Plastic Royalty" Gets a Reality Show
September 2nd 2010
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Chicago‘s top cosmetic surgery team is ready for its closeup.
”Plastic Royalty,” a reality show created by local company Towers Productions, features the team behind the Gold Coast‘s Liposuction and Cosmetic Surgery Institute. The premier episode airs this weekend on NBC5.
The two main stars are Dr. Leon Forrester Tcheupdjian—otherwise known as the “King of Lipo—and his daughter, Leslie,
aka the “Queen of Lips,” as they consult with patients seeking
facelifts, tummy tucks, breast augmentations, botox injections and more.
“We’re
making the patients the stars, not us. We’re just showing what the
patients go through when they come to our office,” Tcheupdjian said.
But
the patients aren’t the A-list Hollywood types who people often
associate with plastic surgery patients. The opening episode featured a
suburban housewife seeking to remove age lines from her face and a
32-year-old bartender looking for liposuction.
“We
are the real mainstream America with common problems, so we show
ordinary people who want a change and how they go about doing it,”
Tcheupdjian said.
Three
staff members—a receptionist, an assistant and a patient consultant
—also play major parts in the series, but if the pilot episode is any
indication, Leslie will be getting a lot of camera time. Towers casting
directors first discovered her while interviewing cast mates for a
potential housewives-style reality series based in Chicago.
“She’s
such a dynamic business woman, but she’s also a staple on the Chicago
social circuit and not afraid to allow us to glimpse into her personal
life,” executive producer Erin Murphy said.
Along
with following the before and after process with two patients, the
pilot episode also covers Leslie’s breakup with her fiance. But despite
the detours into their personal lives, Leslie insists they will be
keeping it classy.
“We
weren’t looking for that drama, cat-fighting kind of thing. We just
wanted to showcase Chicago and what we do offer something that you
could walk away from feeling good about. Not a girls beating up girls
kind of show,” she said.
Towers Productions is hoping the show will get picked up and distributed in other markets.
They also have several other Chicago-based shows in development they’re
hoping to produce.
“Plastic
Royalty” airs Sunday Sept. 5 at 12:30 a.m. and 11:05 p.m., and Tuesday
Sept. 7 at 2 p.m. on NBC 5. Watch an interview with the cast on the NBC
5 Morning News at 6:20 a.m. Saturday.
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/around-town/events/Chicagos-Plastic-Royalty-Reality-Show-Debuts-Sunday-102081008.html#ixzz0yOyRJ1rc
