Some women in the public eye let themselves age naturally; others pay secret visits to cosmetic surgeons.
Kirstie Allsopp, by contrast, is disarmingly honest.
The wholesome television presenter, who turned 50 last summer, has revealed that she plans to have a facelift.
‘So far I’ve been very lucky, really: I made it to 50 and my face hasn’t collapsed,’ Allsopp says. ‘But I reckon I’ve only got about another five years or so. I know it’s only a matter of time before I have to think about evasive action.’
Paraphrasing Dylan Thomas’s poem about death, she declares: ‘I will not go gently into the dark night; I will rage against the dying of the light and I will get a facelift.’
Allsopp mocks those famous figures who publicly claim to enjoy the ageing process.
‘I always marvel at those who say: “Getting older is brilliant. I’ve never felt better.”
The wholesome television presenter, who turned 50 last summer, has revealed that she plans to have a facelift
‘Sorry, but getting older means more aches and pains; it means you have to work harder to keep your weight down; it means your hairdresser has to use more dye every time you go to see her.’ The Location, Location, Location co-host (below) has two children and two stepchildren with her property developer boyfriend Ben Andersen, 59. She’s the daughter of former Christie’s chairman, the 6th Lord Hindlip, and doesn’t mind being called posh.
‘Not at all,’ she says. ‘I am posh. What drives me potty is when people assume I’ve only managed to get where I am because my dad’s a baron.
‘Same as everybody else, I’ve had to work bloody hard — nothing to do with my dad.
‘Yes, I have famous friends, but I’ve also spent two decades talking to ordinary working-class and middle-class people in every county. I probably understand the people of this country far better than some MPs.’
Allsopp mocks those famous figures who publicly claim to enjoy the ageing process.
With Boris Johnson’s future uncertain, ‘Dishy Rishi’ Sunak is on a charm offensive.
I hear he’s offering civil servants at the Treasury the opportunity to get to know him in monthly ‘Chancellor coffee catch-ups’.
A small group of staff ‘who don’t usually interact with the Chancellor’ will be given the chance to ‘spend 45 minutes having a chat about anything from his favourite TV shows to how to measure human happiness’.
But the mandarins must first think of a question to impress Sunak, who will receive it in advance, ‘to help get the conversation going’.
Questions on Downing Street parties are unlikely to be permitted.
With Boris Johnson’s future uncertain, ‘Dishy Rishi’ Sunak is on a charm offensive.
She fearlessly stripped off and walked through fire as Daenerys Targaryen in sex-and-dragons drama Game Of
