Man's J-Lo plastic surgery

A television make-over show has tried to turn its latest participant into Jennifer Lopez - and his name is Michael.

MTV's I Want A Famous Face, where contestants undergo thousands of pounds' worth of plastic surgery to look like their favourite star, has managed to turn up the shock factor another notch after twins Matt and Mike Schlepp went under the knife to look like Brad Pitt.

Now transsexual Michael J Tito, 23, has been given hormone treatment, jaw and brow sculpting and cheek implants to look like Latin diva J-Lo in a programme screened last night in the US.

Tito also underwent breast enlargements and bottom implants. An online vote declared the transformation a "match".

Tito, who is changing his name to Jessica, said he was pleased with the result but admitted after the programme that no-one had actually mistaken him for Lopez.

"No, but my people tell me all the time I am very J-Lo-ish," he said.

"I am her fan. I love her. I think she is beautiful. I just wished I would have gotten my breasts a little larger."

The show is one of a series of drastic new make-over programmes in the US, including The Swan, where 16 "ugly duckling" women undergo cosmetic surgery and compete against each other in beauty contests, and Florida-based Miami Slice.