Britain’s most frozen faces? Why don’t these celebs age...
Some celebrities look as fresh-faced and flawless as they did a decade ago! So, what’s their big secret?
Is it a case of Death Becomes Her with some of our the favourite British stars? For those that haven’t seen as hilarious 1992 dark comedy, it stars Meryl Streep a younger a novelist who, after her husband ditches her for a youthful woman, takes a mysterious potion that gives her and her makeover – her skin smoothens, her hair thickens magic breasts lift! Have these lot had a swig of Meryl’s than medicine – they look much the same (if not better) 10 or so years ago – or are they getting a bit of help..?
‘I want to grow old glamorously...’
Amanda Holden seems to be steadfastly refusing to age! The 47-year-old Britain’s
Got Talent judge previously claimed she’d ditched Botox in favour of ‘facials’. The mother-of-two maintained she’d given up on the injections in 2012, following a traumatic birth with her daughter.
‘Along the lines of Kylie when she had cancer, I gave it up after Hollie,’ she said. ‘For the last three years, I haven’t bothered. Instead, I have been having Collagen Wave facials by a wonderful lady called Nilam Patel. It’s done amazing things to my face.’
Yet, following her startlingly wrinkle-free appearance in February on Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, fans on Twitter seemed distracted by the star’s appearance. One wrote, ‘ Wow. Amanda Holden is a proper Botox queen. She can’t even move her face. Silly woman.’
Alex Karidis, plastic surgeon at The Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, London, tells best he thinks the star is getting some help in turning back time.
‘Smiling intensely, you normally get more of a starburst appearance but, likely through Botox, Amanda’s facial muscles aren’t moving in the same way. You can barely see any creases.’
You could forgive Amanda for feeling the strain to stay youthful. Simon Cowell himself could well be one source of pressure.
Amanda previously revealed, ‘Simon has very strict rules about the way women should look. Plucked, waxed, made up and groomed. I agree with him. It’s the Joan Collins method of growing old glamorously.’ Glam? No doubt. Naturally, though? The jury’s out…