"SO YOU'VE got cancer Eileen how does that feel?" asked 10 Years Younger presenter Nicky Hambleton Jones on last night's show.

Forget Trinny and Susannah's inappropriate groping. Makeover shows have surely sunk to a new low when surgeons wait until the camera crews are ready for the close-up before revealing a potentially life-threatening rodent ulcer.

Poor 48-year-old, size 18 (as we were told at frequent intervals) Eileen Breeding only wanted to smarten herself up a bit.

But she was told she had cancer, had the skin of a man, had let herself go beyond belief, and looked shock horror 56!

Like all 10 Years Younger victims, Eileen was paraded in front of 100 strangers on the street who were obviously asked to say the meanest thing they could think of.

"Her clothes have to be seen to be believed," said one particulary bitchy old man.

Even her friends lined up to give her a good slagging off.

"She's become very, very frumpy to be honest with you," admitted her toy boy husband.

"She's got stuck in a rut, totally lost it," said a close friend.

And it only got worse for Eileen.

"Burning someone's face off with acid sounds like the climax of a Vincent Price movie," said the commentator as Eileen's "rhino skin" was torched off.

"Eileen, you've got it wrong again," taunted Nicky as podiatrist Emma sliced the yellow crusty skin from her feet with a scalpel.

OK, she looked stunning at the end of the show, but was it really worth having your teeth filed down to stumps with a bespectacled dragon and camera crew in your face?

I think not.