Sex addict GP was on Ch4’s First Dates at ‘same time he was using his practice to have sexual liaisons with women’
- EXCLUSIVE: Dr Tom Plimmer accused of inviting women to surgery for sex
- He appeared on an unaired episode of Channel Four’s First Dates filmed in 2018
A Cambridge-educated doctor accused of having sex with women at his GP practice appeared on Channel Four’s First Dates, we can reveal.
In newly-unearthed footage, Dr Tom Plimmer, 40, shared a joke with his TV date, telling her he’s a GP before asking her ‘do you have a rash that needs looking at?’
The show was filmed in 2018 at a time when Dr Plimmer was allegedly in sexual relationships with a number of women at the same time.
However, it was never aired in full because the trailer for the programme caused such a furore Dr Plimmer had to ask for it to be removed.
It is understood the GP referred to his sex addiction during filming and that the GP practice where he worked felt the association may be damaging to its reputation.
In one of the opening exchanges with his TV dates the GP, who has admitted to being a sex addict, admits to a past infidelity, leaving his date visibly disappointed in him.
In newly-unearthed footage, Tom Plimmer, 40, shared a joke with his TV date, telling her he’s a GP before asking her ‘do you have a rash that needs looking at?’
The show was filmed in 2018 at a time when Dr Plimmer was allegedly in sexual relationships with a number of women at the same time
It is understood the GP referred to his sex addiction during filming and that the GP practice where he worked felt the association may be damaging to its reputation
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A former girlfriend told MailOnline he filmed the show without telling her, leaving her dumbfounded when the trailer aired on TV.
She said: ‘Tom is an exhibitionist who loves an audience to talk about himself. Having entered a relationship with him, it would have been nice to have had some warning he planned to appear on a TV dating show, but I was given none.’
As it turned out the show was never aired. Tom’s explanation for this was that his practice was unhappy about it being shown.
‘At the time he liked to talk about his sex addiction and appears to have done so on the programme. First Dates called a friend of his to corroborate that aspect of what they had filmed.
‘That appears to have been the reason – or one of the reasons – it was pulled.’
One of the six female complainants against Dr Plimmer in a current Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing has since written to Channel Four to make them aware of the allegations against him.
She said she wanted to notify the programme makers in the light of the allegations made against him so that a welfare check could be arranged with the woman he met for his TV date.
A former girlfriend told MailOnline he filmed the show without telling her, leaving her dumbfounded when the trailer aired on TV
She said: ‘Tom is an exhibitionist who loves an audience to talk about himself. Having entered a relationship with him, it would have been nice to have had some warning he planned to appear on a TV dating show, but I was given none’
Dr Plimmer is accused of using his consulting rooms as a convenient meeting place for sexual liaisons with a number of women during working hours
On his First Dates appearance the doctor confesses that he’s unfaithful during his date
Dr Plimmer is accused of using his consulting rooms as a convenient meeting place for sexual liaisons with a number of women during working hours.
Plimmer, giving evidence to the tribunal, said all their acts were consensual.
On his Frist Dates appearance the doctor confesses that he’s unfaithful during his date. He told her: ‘Have I ever cheated I think was your question – and the answer is yes I have.’
The brunette woman responded: ‘Oh brilliant, I was really hoping for a cheater.’
She later added: ‘I don’t struggle with getting male attention, I struggle with keeping it.’
The date starts with a Dr Plimmer telling the woman: ‘I’m a GP,’ to which she replied: ‘Oh that’s very handy.’ He then responds with: ‘Have you got a rash that needs looking at?’ to which his flustered date replies: ‘Ooh no I don’t.’
The former girlfriend said: ‘There was more than me who was shocked to discover he’d filmed that episode for Channel Four.
‘I saw the trailer and there he was on TV as bold as you like, something he had never mentioned he’d done. As it turned out there were other women he was involved with who were just as shocked.
Dr Plimmer has been accused of sending unsolicited pictures of his genitals that were ‘taken at work’
READ MORE: Doctor accused of having sex with multiple women at GP surgery apologises to former lovers and patients as he tells tribunal he suffers from addiction
‘He didn’t seem to think it was a big deal but for some reason his part in the episode wasn’t aired, although the trailer was bad enough.
‘I never got to the bottom of why it was cut, though I suspect it may have been at his request because of the reaction caused by the trailer.’
Giving evidence to the fitness to practice MPTS hearing, Dr Plimmer told the tribunal that the way he had treated women had been ‘disgusting’.
‘I betrayed their trust, I disrespected them, I lied and cheated, and there’s no excuse,’ he told the hearing. ‘I feel immense shame for everything I did.’
Cross-examined by Mark Monaghan, counsel for the General Medical Council, Dr Plimmer admitted he was ‘guilty of creating a lot of the mess we’re here discussing’.
But he insisted he hadn’t ‘revelled’ in upsetting the women or tried to ‘manipulate’ them.
Denying using his girlfriends for sex, Dr Plimmer insisted he had been seeking ‘companionship’ – but admitted regularly cheating on them.
Asked by Mr Monaghan if it was ‘normal’ to be seeing three women at once, Dr Plimmer admitted it was ‘abnormal’.
‘It was shameful and regrettable, and it’s ended up causing a lot of hurt to a lot of people, and it’s all my fault,’ he said.
Dr Plimmer said the litany of deceit was a consequence of his self-confessed sex addiction, saying: ‘You will never see an active addict who isn’t also a liar.’
The hearing continues.
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