Will Dr Leah Totton be ‘The Apprentice’ 2013?

The final episode of The Apprentice airs tonight on BBC1 at 8.00pm and will see Lord Sugar taking on a business partner with a personal investment of £250,000.  Luisa Zissman with a proposed wholesale bakery business, and Dr Leah Totton’ business plan for a chain of Medical Cosmetic clinics will be going ‘head to head’ in the battle to be Lord Sugar’s Apprentice for 2013.  Will Alan Sugar take the safe option of baking or the cosmetic route which for him, has a moral dilemma.  

Yet Leah’s new business venture proposal is not a new concept as in central Exeter we have the luxurious Radiance MediSpa which already provides this service with clients flocking from all over the South West.  With 11 sumptuous treatment rooms Radiance offers pioneering treatments not found anywhere else in the region and some not available outside of London; yet at affordable prices.

The standards for cosmetic practice recommends that only doctors, dentists and nurses of appropriate training should provide non-surgical cosmetic treatments such as Botox.  Radiance MediSpa which opened in spring 2013 was launched by Dr Ros Debenham a qualified GP with 22 years’ experience and renowned aesthetic doctor together with daughter Katie Debenham a specialist laser therapist. The state-of-the-art centre dedicated to skin health and rejuvenation has bought ground-breaking and non-invasive skin and body treatments to the city. The 7,300 sq ft MediSpa boasts impressive treatment rooms as well as a dedicated gym for personal trainer sessions, a conference room and training area plus a high-end hairdressing salon.

Dr Ros Debenham, a local finalist in the Devon Venus Awards for ‘New Business of the Year’, carries out all injectable procedures in line with the recent publication by The Royal College of Surgeons and is ethical in the treatments she carries out.

Dr Ros Debenham MB ChB MRCGP Co-owner of Radiance MediSpa says 

“With recent press about only professionals being the ones to administer cosmetic injectables it is interesting to see Lord Sugar poised to invest in Leah Totton's business to provide anti-wrinkle injections, dermal fillers and chemical peels. It is also very welcoming to hear Leah's forceful response to Lord Sugar's ethical concerns. Maybe the best evidence of an aesthetic practitioner's morals is in their refusal to do a treatment. I certainly have no reservations about advising against treatments or even refusing them.  In contrast, that is what has enabled me to build my list of loyal clients of whom so many refer friends. One word of advice that I would have is to make sure that the clinic you attend can offer a wide range of treatments & Cosmeceuticals (skin care products only available through practitioners). If not they will merely be dealing with the 'symptoms of ageing' & not slowing down & reversing the ageing process. 'Collagen stimulation is key' and 'ordinary facials should be forgotten'. Laser, Thermage, Chemical Peels, Dermaroller & Indiba treatments are powerful tools to keep and return that youthful yet natural look.”

www.radiancemedispa.co.uk