The hapless man who rose to international fame after his appearance on The Sex Clinic is totally fine with his newfound celebrity. Zach, the lad who hadn’t ‘washed his penis properly’ in 24 years and presented to E4’s TV clinic with a nasty case of smegma, is handling his notoriety like a champion after producers called to check up on him. ‘Yeah, he’s fine. As far as I know Zach is fine and knows now what he needs to do in order to keep smegma away,’ Nurse Sarah Mulindwa, a presenter and sexual health nurse on the show told Metro.co.uk after Zach’s story reached crazy heights following his on-TV debut.
‘He was washing it…just not as thoroughly as he should. It’s quite obvious to you and …it’s all well and good for us. I’m trying to defend Zach. ‘He is a national hero, I have friends in Croatia who read about the show. The Hollywood Reporter picked it up as well.’ Speaking about the quizzically-raised eyebrows she’s got as mates question her on the reasons someone like Zach would go on the show with such symptoms, she said it was a generational thing. ‘Everyone is like, “how did Zach go on there, what is the incentive?”. Production has a whole team dedicated to finding people, but I know they’re all like, “yeah I heard about the show and thought I’d come on.”
Inspecting his junk, Dr Naomi described the smell was the product of ‘smegma’, which is now a word we want to banish to the nethers of our mind. Zach told the doc he’d been having some issues retracting his foreskin, and matters were not made any easier when he admitted while he just gave his privates a cursory ‘scrub’ in the shower, he also previously ‘had the clap’ and ‘caught Gonorrhea from some lass too’. When he was quizzed by Sarah afterwards over his lack of sexual organ hygiene, Zach explained the area was ‘sensitive’ enough as it was – so he wasn’t about to grab a flannel and some soap and risk…whatever you risk when you wash yourself thoroughly. His flippant thoughts to hygiene though are helping others, though, as Sarah praised him for sharing his story on national telly.