To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video *Warning this article contains some graphic images BBC Breakfast viewers have questioned the broadcaster’s decision to air ‘graphic’ surgery scenes ‘so early in the morning.’ At around 7.30am on Sunday, the show featured a segment on Pinky Jolley, from the Wirral, who nearly died twice after a botched weight loss operation in Turkey.
The report included clips from her NHS corrective surgery in the UK which was successful and allowed her to eat solid food for the first time in three years. However, BBC Breakfast viewers complained on X that the surgery scenes were inappropriate for the time in the morning. @TVnerd5645 said sarcastically: ‘Graphic surgery scenes this early in a morning.
.. yum #bbcbreakfast.
’ Echoing their sentiment, @Susan05713606 said: ‘Surgery and dog s**t lovely sunday topics this morning #bbcbreakfast.’ Wanting a more rounded report, @AbdnAlba commented: ‘Would have been nice if Pinky highlighted the dangers of surgery in Turkey considering we are paying for the remedial surgery #BBCBreakfast.’ Pinky flew to Turkey in November 2022 to have a gastric sleeve operation as her weight had increased to 17 stone 11 lbs.
She could not afford the surgery in the UK, which can cost between £7,000 and £12,000. In Turkey, she paid £2,100. Pinky suffered a serious leak after having the operation and spent months on intravenous antibiotics.
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