There’s a new Bondi vet in town with Dr Kate Adams replacing Dr Chris Brown on new Nine show

SHE has some big shoes to fill by the blonde guy now hosting celebrity victims in the South African jungle, but the new Bondi Vet, Dr Kate Adams, says 2019 is the perfect time to embrace a female in the high profile role.

New Bondi vet, Dr Kate Adams with her Golden Retriever Ben. Picture: Supplied

SHE has some big shoes to fill by the blonde guy now hosting celebrity victims in the South African jungle, but the new Bondi Vet, Dr Kate Adams, says 2019 is the perfect time to embrace a female in the high profile role.

“Dr Chris [Brown] was so loved and charismatic and I think there will be potentially a little bit of flak in terms of me not being a man,” Dr Adams told East this week of her former colleague at Bondi Vet Hospital, which she has owned for several years.

“There is still a perception men are better vets than females are and I still get people saying they only want a male to perform surgery on their animals. So I think 2019 is a perfect time for a new female Bondi Vet.

Dr Kate Adams is the new Bondi Vet which will appear on Nine in 2019.

“Females in science and technology have made so much headway and I hope the community will be accepting of the fact, we tend to get boxed and people will still ask ‘did you really do the whole of vet school?’ so I hopefully I can smash the perception!”

Adams is also an entrepreneur (she is director for ASX listed Cannpal Animal Therapeutics and founder of thank you note website, thankly.com) and was recently named in the Wentworth Courier’s list of Eastern suburbs entrepreneurs to watch in 2019.

The 36-year-old says the new show — which also features four other vets from around the country and will be called Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast — shows the emotion, the pressure and behind the scenes work that goes on.

Adams is also an entrepreneur.

“It’s not all cute puppies and kittens. I’ve realised you can’t be perfect and you can’t control animals or the situation some times,” she laughs of the series which was axed from Channel 10 and will move to its new home at Nine this year.

In the series, Adams is both doctor and patient when her own 12-year-old Golden Retriever, Ben, is diagnosed with cancer and she performs surgery on him.

“That for me was personal having to deal with that on camera. I had to do all his surgeries and the CT scans and make sure the cancer hadn’t spread — and not knowing the outcome of that — that was a very emotionally raw thing to film. I did feel overwhelmed as an owner.”

Also mum to a geriatric ginger cat, Gilbert, 19, Adams — who came to Bondi in 2010 from Perth and never left the East — laughs her Paddington terrace will soon need to install a lift.