Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson ... er, IS that you?
HER hair looking glossy and perfectly coiffed, Anne Robinson walks out of a salon with a smile on her face and a spring in her step.
But were it not for those trademark red tresses, the 71year-old television presenter might almost have passed unnoticed.
She looked somewhat different from the days when it seemed that she was never off our screens.
And the glare of the sun hardly helped matters as it left Miss Robinson squinting as she strolled along a West London street yesterday.
Miss Robinson became a household name as the host of consumer affairs programme Watchdog and then the BBC game show The Weakest Link which earned her the nickname ‘Queen of Mean’.
She has spoken openly in the past about having had a facelift to help reduce the effect of ageing.
The broadcaster once said: ‘My appearance is all down to maintenance. I’m like the Forth Rail Bridge.
‘I run, I have facials, I eat an awful lot of salmon and salad. If you want to expose bare arms in primetime, there’s no choice.’
In 2012 she said she wanted a third facelift, explaining: ‘I’ve asked my surgeon if I could have a third lift. I had my eyes done ages ago and I had work on my chin and brow five or six years ago. A facelift in Los Angeles makes you look as if you’re in a wind tunnel. And there’s the New York facelift that makes you simply look lifted. I had mine done here. You just look good.’
Miss Robinson, who has one daughter from her first marriage, split from her second husband John Penrose, a journalist, in 2007.
The grandmother-of-two successfully fought skin cancer in 2001, saying that doctors only discovered she had it just before she was due to have liposuction in LA.
She said in 2005: ‘It was a great relief when they cleared it. What really scares me is if I hadn’t gone to the doctor in LA no one would have seen it because it wasn’t obvious.’