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A beautician has been banned from the road after she blamed failing to take a breath test on her surgically enhanced lips.

Scarlett Harrison, 20, said her lips were too big for her to blow into a police breathalyser machine after she was stopped by officers in Manchester city centre.

But when she was asked to give an accurate breath sample back at a police station the blonde - who appeared in the MTV reality TV show Ex On The Beach - complained her collagen implants made it too "difficult" for her to get her mouth around the tube.

She attempted four times to blow into the intoximeter machine before confessing to officers: "My lips are too big".

(Image: Scarlett Harrison/ Cavendish Pre)

She was later charged with failing to provide a breath sample.

At Manchester magistrates court Harrison initially pleaded not guilty to the charge claiming she was unable to give a breath sample for "medical reasons."

But on the day of her trial she changed her plea to guilty and was banned from the roads for 16 months.

Her trendy white Mini One car has since been sold.

Earlier Mr Harrison, 47, watched from the public gallery as the court heard how his daughter who lives at their family's luxury home in Bramhall, Cheshire was pulled over near Piccadilly railway station on June 20 after she had a row with a male friend she had been drinking with.

Prosecutor Neil White said: "Police saw the defendant parked up by the taxi rank late at night and were wondering what was going on.

"When the officers went over to speak to her, they could smell alcohol on her breath and so conducted a roadside breath test.

"She was over the limit so she was taken to the police station.

(Image: Scarlett Harrison/ Cavendish Pre)

"At the station, they informed her about going through to the intoximeter room and proceeded to discuss the demeanour of the defendant and how she now felt.

"She tried to go through with it and attempted to blow four times. She told them she was anxious and nervous and when asked by the police officer if there was any reason why she couldn't provide a sample, she said her lips were too big and she couldn't blow into it.

"They asked if she had any medical conditions or health conditions that could stop her doing so and she said: 'No, just my lips'.

"This has since been clarified and she was not able to give enough medical evidence, and it was as simple as that.

"She has a clean driving license. She has pleaded guilty on the day of her trial."

In mitigation, Harrison's defence lawyer Matthew Wallace said: "She had gone into Manchester and admits to having a couple of Pink Gins. She had an argument with a male friend who decided to disappear somewhere in the city centre.

She got into her car and was planning on looking for him.

(Image: Scarlett Harrison/ Cavendish Pre)

"She pulled up in the taxi rank, which she did not appreciate was a problem at the time. She did blow a positive road side sample and there were four further attempts made at the police station.

"She is somebody who has suffered with anxiety in the past, this is clear on her medical records.

"Along with the current trend, she has collagen implants in her lips which is something that caused her due difficulty in forming a seal around the tube.

"She was also attacked a number of months ago by a person, and one side of her lip was damaged and has scar tissue which provided her further difficulty. When she was in the intoximeter room, they told her she needed to blow into the machine and she was feeling they were very abrupt.

"Of course it is their professional duty and she had to blow into the machine, however she became anxious and she did try to give a sample.

"It was recorded as a failure. It can be either marked as a failure or refusal - but this says nothing about a deliberate refusal. She was trying to provide a sample.

"She fully understands she should not drink and drive at all. She finds herself in this situation and she is very remorseful.

(Image: Scarlett Harrison/ Cavendish Pre)

"This was taken seriously by her family, the day after her father put her car up for sale, it has been sold and she doesn't drive , she hasn't been driving at all.

"She is currently out of work, she arrived back from working abroad in Ibiza week ago. She is due to start work at a local restaurant once it opens, she is just awaiting a starting date. She lives with her parents. She is ordinarily employed.

"When considering the disqualification, I ask you to consider her record, she has never been in trouble before. There is a clear demonstration of remorse. She is disappointed in herself. She is supported by her father who sits at the back of the court.

"She is sorry to find herself before the court and I can assure you will not see her again. "

Manchester JPs told her: "We have discussed things carefully and I have listened to everything that's been said.

"This is a serious offence you have been charged with, drink drivers cause danger to the public."

Harrison was also ordered fined £160 plus £150 in court costs. She was offered a place on a drink driver rehabilitation course.