Oop! A plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills claims business is “booming” as actors are using their downtime during the SAG-AFTRA strike to go under the knife.
As we’ve previously reported, the American actors’ union officials confirmed that they were officially on strike as of July 14, 2023.
Fran Drescher, former star of ‘The Nanny’ and president of SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), revealed that the strike went into effect after the guild’s contract with the American Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expired on June 30, 2023, and no agreement had been made since.
As many actors and performing artists continue to protest, march and lift up their picket signs, it is now being reported that others are using the strike to go and get some work done on their faces and bodies.
A plastic surgeon out of Beverly Hills, Dr. Ben Talei of the Beverly Hills Center for Plastic Surgery, tells TMZ that for him, business has been “booming!” He claims that when the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) began discussing their own strike “maybe four months ago” (which they subsequently did in May 2023), that was when actors began predicting they too would see a strike, and they began prepping by coming into his office for consultations.
Since WGA and SAG-AFTRA members going strike — together for the first time in 60 years — Dr. Talei claims that he has been working 7 days a week, because of all the influx of patients walking through his doors to go under the knife and recover without being noticed or missing work.
According to Dr. Talei, several A-list and B-list celebrities have flocked to his office, including some of his personal favorite actors and even sports stars. Dr. Talei even revealed that some of his actor patients made contingency plans.
He explained that they tried to gauge whether or not the strike would last long. If it seemed like things would be resolved quickly, they’d only go under the knife to get minor work done, like fillers. However, if they believed the strike would continue for a few more weeks, they went and got the works.
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