SHE WON’T PART WITH HER MANE

JANE’S curtain of hair falling halfway down her back has been her trademark. ‘People say women shouldn’t have long hair over a certain age. But I’ve never done what everyone says,’ she remarks. For more than a decade she has gone to celebrity hairdresser Marie Ferro in Malibu for colouring — Marie says she sees her every three weeks. ‘We’ve become friends over the years,’ says Marie. ‘I find her an incredible inspiration in terms of her integrity, loyalty and support.’ Marie describes Jane’s hair as fine but abundant, with a slight wave. At 67, there are quite a few grey hairs, too. First Marie uses a gel to remove minerals and build-up under a heat cap for 20 minutes, and then applies red, blonde and medium golden brown colour. Protein-enriched conditioner is used on the ends, then a ‘revitaliser’ that stops the oxidation process which can occur after colouring. Back in the mid-1990s, Jane made a pretty penny by endorsing Clairol’s Loving Care hair dye in television commercials, but Marie Ferro says she certainly hasn’t used boxed home colour kits for the past 15 years, and instead uses Goldwell products now. She has latterly had some golden highlights put in to frame her face. Collins. ’We were all clients of the same person, who only had three machines,’ she says. She now also uses a Gyrotonic machine.

She said last year: ‘Nowadays I do Pilates and light weights — and I do spinning with a trainer, also with light weights. If I can’t get to do any of that, then I’ll just lie on the ground and do planks and stomach exercises.’

She also loves wall squats, in which you line your back against the wall, place your feet hip-distance apart, then slide down until your knees are at a 90-degree angle.

She is a member of the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California, which was laid out by golfer Jack Nicklaus, and is known on the celebrity circuit as a good chipper and putter.