Watch: 'Second life' for Lembit Opik after face op
Former Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Opik has been "given a second life" after radical facial surgery he jokingly said he hoped would transform him into George Clooney.
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The Liberal Democrat politician, who has dated weathergirl Sian Lloyd and Cheeky Girl Gabriela Irimia, showed off the results of the NHS surgery to fix his "wonky face" which he sustained in a horrific paragliding accident 18 years ago.
Speaking on This Morning, he said: "I fell about 30 yards, 28 metres, and broke my back in 12 places, my ribs, my sternum, my jaw. We didn't realise I'd smashed my jaw because I was that close to death."
He said the way his broken jaw healed was "frankly a nightmare . . . constant pain, not able to eat properly and my teeth were disintegrating".
