Megan Fox has finally set the record straight when it comes to her various plastic surgery procedures.

For years, the Transformers star, 37, has baffled fans with her ever-changing looks, but she has kept quiet amid the ongoing speculation.

In particular, her drastically different outlook at a Super Bowl afterparty last month led to a frenetic guessing game on social media about what she had recently done — with posters and even plastic surgeons thinking she was getting a nose job, cheek filler and a brow lift.

Now the mum-of-three has detailed the cosmetic procedures she’s had, including spending $30,000 on the ‘biggest breasts that could fit my body’. She also admitted to having a nose job in her early 20s, but denies having the procedure seven or eight times.

Megan went on to dismiss rumors about other procedures she’s had – insisting she’ll never have fat removed from her body because she’s so skinny – as she candidly discussed the work she wants done in the future .

Ironically, despite admitting that she loves the results of surgery and wants people to think of her as a “circus freak,” she confessed that she has avoided many common procedures because she is terrified of anesthesia.

Speaking about the Call her daddy podcast, she revealed the work she had done to her face — filler and Botox but no facelift or threads — a non-surgical procedure designed to lift sagging skin and stimulate collagen production.

She explained: I’ve never had a facelift, no lateral brow lift Even though I would love one!

Not an ordinary eyebrow lift, I have never done threads before. That’s not because of any moral issue, I just don’t really believe they work and I’m also afraid they will interfere if I need a facelift.

‘I’m very tempted to get rid of my eyebrows completely [back]. I want that look. That seems nice and you can do it during a lunch break and I understand why it’s so tempting,’

She went on to dismiss rumors that she had buccal fat removed (cheek slimming), explaining: ‘I’ve never had that done, I will never have any fat removed.

“I’m a skinny person who doesn’t have enough body fat or fat in my face, so I’ll just put fat in there.”

“I will never remove fat, which leads me to never having liposuction or body contouring or anything like that.”

Talking about her ample breasts and slim body, she said: ‘My boobs have been fake since I was 21 or 22. I had them done between the first and second Transformers. But I had them done conservatively.

‘Because then everyone did the work, but you had to do work that was undetectable.

‘I, always, that little girl standing in the mirror, always thought, “Where are my breasts?” I always wanted big breasts. So I wasn’t happy with the first set.

“I had them redone after I finished breastfeeding my kids because I don’t know where they went, but they went.”

‘Then I had to have them redone recently because with the first set I didn’t have enough body fat to hide – you could see the wavy thing from the implants.’

Megan continued: ‘I don’t like surgery – my body doesn’t respond well to general anesthesia – so if I have to have surgery it’s a really big deal.

‘Going under anesthesia is a risk to your life. So when I had to go in for this set, I thought, “Look, if you’re going to put me to sleep, if I’m going to be sick for two months from the general anesthetic… I better wake up with the biggest boobs you’ve ever seen.” can fit in my body.”

“And that’s what he said he did. And they’re not even that big. It’s a 32D which isn’t that big, they just look big on my body because my body is small.

‘But if he could have gotten bigger, I would have let them get bigger, because I don’t like operations, and because I had to do it, I thought, ‘I want a reward for the suffering I have to go through. I don’t want to wake up with a full B cup.” There’s no point, I won’t do it.

‘I wanted t*tties. I don’t care what’s trendy, give me stripper titties from 1990. And he did it.”

Megan went on to reveal that she also wants a bigger butt but stops people when they look at her, but revealed that this isn’t possible at the moment because she is so slim.

When asked if she had had a Brazilian butt lift or implants, she said: ‘If I could, I would. I have no extra body fat. I’d have it done if I could.

‘That operation is so difficult to recover from. It’s basically like having to lie flat on your face for three months. You’re bruised for an eternity.

“If I ever did that, if I survived that operation, you would give me an a**e, that’s an anomaly.

“Like I’m walking through a park, and I’m going to turn around and everyone’s going to whisper and laugh and talk because they’re like, ‘What? What are we looking at?’ Like a circus freak.

“If I go through that healing process, that’s what I want. I don’t come out with, “Oh, has she actually been to the gym lately?”

‘It’s supposed to stop people. But I don’t have the body fat to do that. But if in the future you can take donated fat from people, I will do that.’

She explained why she had withdrawn from other work that people speculated she had done: “I am very afraid of dying under general anesthesia.

‘So I don’t take surgery lightly and because of that I haven’t had many. So it’s probably a saving grace that I have this paranoia, or this fear, otherwise God knows what I would have been up to.”

Recently, Megan was accused of being ‘xenophobic’ as she tried to defend her shocking new look, comparing herself to a ‘Ukrainian blow-up doll’ in a photo.

The Transformers star responded to critics by attributing the change in her image to a “shady” photo.

However, her rebuttal sparked controversy when she proudly claimed that she “really” looks like a “super expensive real silicone sex doll” from Japan.

“Oh my god, guys, look how different I look…at all,” she began her bizarre post. ‘It turned out to be just a shady cell phone photo of me looking like a Ukrainian blow-up doll. when in reality I look like one of those super expensive real silicone sex dolls that you can only get in Japan.”

Megan previously shared her thoughts on plastic surgery with Allure magazine in 2010, saying it was “amazing” that “we have the technology to do the things we do.”

‘I would encourage anyone to talk to a therapist first, to try to find out where this craving comes from, because it is often not related to your teeth, your nose or your chin – the surgery will not remove that uncertainty. you,” she said at the time.

“Then if you feel like, ‘This is something I want to do,’ then do it. It’s amazing that we have the technology to do the things we do.”

Megan has also admitted that she is very ‘insecure’ about her appearance.

After her breakthrough in Transformers, she told Rolling Stone in 2009: ‘I’m really insecure about everything. I see what I look like, but there are things I like and things I don’t like.

‘My hair is fine. The color of my eyes is of course good. But I’m too short. Overall, I’m not super excited about the whole thing.

‘I never think I’m worth anything. I have a sick feeling that I am constantly being mocked. I have a lot of self-loathing.”

Celebrity Big Brother’s Louis Walsh appeared to make a subtle joke towards fellow X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne during Tuesday night’s episode.

The former X Factor judge, 71, joined Sharon, also 71, in the secret room to judge their fellow celebrities in the house.

While commenting on Lauren Simon’s appearance, Louis joked, “She’s had some work.” [cosmetic surgery]you would know, wouldn’t you’.

When Louis made the cheeky comment to Sharon, she waved it off and nodded in agreement.

In 2021, Sharon admitted that the facelift she underwent was the ‘worst thing she’s ever done’ and previously revealed that the procedure made her look like ‘Quasimodo’.

Sharon has been open about her penchant for plastic surgery over the years, but has not denied that she regrets it and eventually went under the knife to repair the botched operation.

The mother-of-three previously opened up about the disastrous facelift, which took place in October 2021 and lasted five and a half hours.

She told The Sunday Times: ‘I’m telling you, it was terrible. I’m like [to the surgeon]“You must be joking.”

‘One eye was different from the other. I looked like a damn Cyclops. I’m like, ‘All I need is a hunchback.’

Sharon added: “I looked like one of those damn mummies they pack [with bandages]. It hurt like hell. You have no idea.’

It is reported that a first explosive argument has already broken out between two fiery housemates.

Louis and Lauren Simon have fallen out after they both wanted the same double bed, reports The sun.

Just hours after arriving at Monday’s launch, the famous faces headed to the bedroom to lay claim to where they wanted to sleep.

But former X Factor judge Louis, 71, and Real Housewives of Cheshire star Lauren, 51, were both reportedly spotted in the same large double bed.

Lauren had settled on the plush bed but was then abandoned by Louis, who wanted it too, the report claims.

A source told the publication: ‘Lauren isn’t used to not getting her way, but when it comes to age and star power, Louis of course completely outshines her.

“It was hard for her to make a solid argument as to why he should make room for her to enjoy the larger bed solo above him, but she put up a good fight.”

‘It was the first sign of tension in the house just hours after the celebrities arrived – and it suggests none of them will be shy about sharing opinions or maintaining their own positions.’

Lauren and Louis join the likes of Sharon Osbourne, David Potts, Colson Smith and Nikita Kuzmin on the show.

Celebrity Big Brother attracted 2.8 million viewers during its ITV launch episode on Monday night – 700,000 more than the last series launch.

The reality show’s celebrity spin-off last aired on Channel 5 in 2018, but was axed after ratings for both the celeb and civilian series fell.

The first episode of the last famous Channel 5 series attracted 2.1 million viewers, peaking at 2.5 million viewers in total.

However, ITV’s relaunch proved a hit in the ratings as it peaked at 3.2 million viewers across all devices – the highest launch since 2016.

According to overnight reports, ITV1 had more than double the audience of any other channel during linear airtime alone.

The new series also delivered the highest 16 to 34 audience of the evening, with 463,000 and a 42.5 percent audience share.

It also beat the launch of the civilian series, which aired in October and saw 2.5 million people tune in to see the show return to screens.

Lindsay Lohan’s mother Dina Lohan has claimed she suffered “serious and permanent personal injuries” after a collision with a truck almost two years ago.

Actress Lindsay’s 61-year-old mother filed a civil lawsuit against Penske Truck Leasing Co. on Feb. 27. in New York Supreme Court, alleging that a commercial vehicle driver crashed into her car on April 22, 2022.

In court documents seen by DailyMail.com, the TV personality is seeking an unspecified amount of money and claims she has suffered “medical and other expenses as a result of her injuries.”

“The plaintiff became ill, sore, crippled and disabled and remained so and suffered pain and damage to their physical and mental health, all with conscious pain and suffering, medical and other expenses incurred as a result of her injuries,” the complaint reads .

The Living Lohan star, whose daughter recently welcomed her first child, claims the driver was traveling at an “excessive speed and/or at a rate greater than prudence and prudence would permit under the circumstances” when the collision occurred. .

The star’s legal representatives stated that the driver failed to “observe and obey the traffic control equipment and traffic light controls” and also failed to “look in the direction in which the vehicle was traveling”, which led to the collision.

The driver is accused of “carelessly, recklessly and negligently failing to and/or properly and timely use of braking mechanisms, signaling devices and steering systems,” according to the complaint.

In the conspiracy described, the moving company’s 2016 Freightliner crashed into the “rear and passenger side” of a 2008 Chevrolet in New York’s Murray Hill neighborhood around 10 a.m.

The lawsuit also states: “Based on the foregoing, plaintiff is entitled to recover for non-economic losses and for such economic losses that do not fall within the definition of fundamental economic loss set forth in section 5102(a) of the law. New York State Insurance Law.

“As a result of the foregoing, Plaintiff suffered serious injury as defined in Section 5102(d) of the New York State Insurance Code.”

It continues: “As a result of the foregoing, plaintiff has been damaged in an amount exceeding the jurisdictional limits of any lower courts that would otherwise have jurisdiction.”

The filing comes years after Dina herself was sentenced to 18 days in jail for a 2020 drunken collision at a Long Island steakhouse.

In January last year, Dina crashed her Mercedes into a Honda in the parking lot of the Outback Steakhouse in Merrick, Long Island.

She then attempted to flee the scene but was chased by the Honda driver. Police said they found Dina in the driver’s seat of her car outside her home.

Dina was taken into custody after she allegedly refused to take a breathalyzer test and verbally abused officers.

The arresting officer noted that her breath smelled of alcohol and that her eyes appeared “glassy and bloodshot.”

She was sentenced in December 2021 in Nassau County Court in Mineola, Long Island, after accepting a plea deal.

Dina’s arrest in January is her second for a DWI. She was arrested for drink driving in 2013 after police stopped her for speeding at 75mph in a 55mph zone.

Her blood alcohol level at the time was found to be more than twice the legal limit.

Elsewhere, Dina revealed that she recently underwent a facelift and neck lift in December 2023.

The mother spoke to Page six about having a custom facial rejuvenation surgery performed earlier this month, along with a facelift and neck lift.

“I’ve always believed in growing old gracefully, but if you want to do something for yourself, go for it,” she said. To get the look, she turned to Dr. Ira Savetsky, a plastic surgeon based in New York’s Upper East Side.

‘I wanted to look like a younger version of myself. Most of my friends did this ten, fifteen years ago,” she added.

Dina was married to Lindsay’s father Michael Lohan from 1985 to 2007 and the former couple also share 30-year-old daughter Aliana.

The family recently expanded after Lindsay welcomed her first child, a son named Luai, with husband Bader Shammas in July 2023.

In August, Lindsay showed off her postpartum body on Instagram, writing, “I’m so proud of what this body has been able to achieve during these months of pregnancy and now, recovery.

‘Having a baby is the greatest joy in the world! My OOTD lately is my postpartum underwear from @fridamom.

Referencing her iconic film Mean Girls, she added, “Because I’m not a regular mom, I’m a postpartum mom.”

DailyMail.com has contacted Dina Lohan and Penske for comment.

Simon Cowell has left fans shocked with his ‘frozen’ performance in the latest episode of Saturday Night Takeaway.

The media mogul, 64, appeared in the first episode of the new series of Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly’s show.

However, viewers found it difficult to concentrate on what he was saying and were more concerned about his appearance.

Simon has previously denied having a facelift, but admits he regrets his extensive use of Botox.

Several viewers took to X and commented on his appearance, with one writing: ‘Is that definitely Simon Cowell? He looks like a melting Ken Doll?’

A second user added: ‘Simon Cowell looks more and more like a cartoon every time I see him,’ while a third wrote: ‘Simon Cowell doesn’t look like Simon Cowell anymore.’

A fourth wrote: ‘I’m not sure Simon Cowell has aged gracefully!’

Fellow guest Stephen Merchant also couldn’t resist commenting on Simon’s performance on the show.

Simon was fooled by Ant and Dec when they had him stopped by fake police while on his bike in Malibu.

Commenting on the clip, Stephen, 49, joked: ‘I didn’t like it… I loved it. that was my Simon impression. It wasn’t very convincing because my face was moving.’

The comedian’s joke also provoked a quick response from viewers: “Stephen Merchant just robbed Simon Cowell.”

Another wrote: ‘Ahaha Stephen Merchant “it’s not entirely convincing because my face moved” after his Simon Cowell impression.’

The show saw Ant and Dec head to Los Angeles for an unmissable Undercover segment, targeting an unsuspecting Simon outside his Californian hideout.

The Britain’s Got Talent judge was originally picked for their first ever Undercover prank – a segment where celebrities are thrust into bizarre situations – while working on US reality show American Idol.

Ant said: ‘Catching him the second time was even more fun because we also caught him during his free time cycling around Malibu, it’s really funny.’

‘We end the Undercovers where we started… with Simon Cowell! Our very first Undercover was with Simon in LA when he was a judge on American Idol.

“So we went back and picked up Simon Cowell again. We went to LA and gave him a great day while he was judging America’s Got Talent.’

Last year, Simon proved he doesn’t mind making fun at his own expense after delving into his changing face Britain has talent.

During one of the talent show’s live shows, he set tongues wagging and made a cheeky comment across his face.

The surprise move came after one hopeful, Tom Crosbie, impressed the judges by creating Bruno Tonioli’s face from Rubik’s Cubes.

As the end result was shown to the panel, Amanda Holden, 52, took the chance to joke about Bruno, 67, saying: ‘Well, he’s got the orange [face] right!’

“How the hell do you do that?” asked a completely bewildered Simon, as the artist replied: ‘Practice… it turns out you have a very difficult face to make from Rubik’s Cubes.’

At that point, Simon joked, “I’ll change my face… again.”

In April, Simon insisted he has never had a facelift after presenters Ant & Dec made a cheeky joke about his changing appearance.

At the time, on December 47, he told the audience: “We have a new face on the jury,” to which his comedy partner, also 47, replied: “What? Simon has a new face?’.

Speak with The mirror Simon laughed off the suggestion that he had gone under the knife, despite his drastically changed facial features.

He told the publication: ‘I think it’s hysterical. I mean, it just makes me laugh. I haven’t had a facelift or anything.’

“I’ve had a little Botox or whatever, but nothing drastic,” he added.

“So when I hear about this, it honestly makes me laugh.”

The talent show boss recently revealed he took his love of Botox too far, leaving him looking like ‘something out of a horror show’ after his latest treatment.

According to The sunSimon said he decided to quit when his strange appearance made son Eric, eight, hysterical.

The former X Factor judge, who shares his son with partner Lauren Silverman, 44, revealed he no longer has any filler in his face as a result.

He also shows off his much slimmer figure after dropping three stone and has lately been wearing a surgical back brace to aid his recovery after being nearly paralyzed in a cycling accident in 2020.

The businessman broke his back in 2020 when he fell from an electric bicycle he was testing at his home in Malibu, California. He had to undergo surgery for six hours. Another setback followed after he fell off his bike again a year later.

The former X Factor star has since shed three stone after overhauling his diet and lifestyle to help with his recovery.

Meeting Stephanie Beacham after her former co-star Joan Collins stunned onlookers with her ageless appearance at the Emmys makes one wonder what they were putting in the water on the Dynasty set in the 1980s.

Or, as one disbelieving fan put it after witnessing 90-year-old Collins’ red carpet turn: ‘What kind of vampire diet is [she] on?’

One could equally ask the same of 76-year-old Beacham, who somehow remains as ravishing as when she played Sable Colby opposite Collins’ Alexis Carrington. So what did Stephanie make of Collins’ recent appearance? ‘I adore her. I said to her once: “You look fabulous, Joan” and while I would have said something like: “Thank you”, she replied: “I hope so. This make-up took an hour!”‘

In real life, though, Stephanie is far more circumspect about the importance of youthfulness. She tells me she’s had Botox, while playing Elizabeth I on stage in 2002, ‘so the smooth bald cap matched my forehead’.

It’s not an experience she wants to repeat. ‘My eyes fell down so I was suddenly looking through half-eyes and I prefer to keep my eyes wide open and wrinkle my brow like a Shar Pei dog.’

As for trying other cosmetic interventions such as facelifts, she says: ‘I look at my hands and unless I wore gloves the entire time, you’d see that there was an ancient person whose face was trying to be young. Plus my neck is a disgrace! It’s got some sort of map of the world written all over it now.’ She adds, wisely: ‘But you know what? That’s called getting older and it’s what we do if we’re very lucky.’

Ageing has been on Stephanie’s mind of late. The actress, the onscreen love interest of everyone from Marlon Brando to Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow (played by William Roache), admits that when she was burgled in October 2022 — a truly terrifying experience where a drug addict threatened her with a crowbar in her West London cottage — ‘I feared for my life. It was the very first time I felt old because I knew there was absolutely nothing I could do.’

Any victim of crime will identify with the feelings of vulnerability Stephanie suffered. Speaking for the first time about that day, she says it turned her into ‘a snivelling, fearful heap’.

Little wonder. Sharing the chilling details of the attack, Stephanie recalls what happened when burglar David Wilson — later described in court as a ‘habitual career burglar’ with long-term drug addiction issues — broke into her home.

‘He held a crowbar over my head, saying: “Give me your money. Give me your jewellery. Don’t look at me. Don’t look at me!” she says. ‘And then he said: “I wish you weren’t here.” That was not too good because when I heard that I thought: “Oh. In a minute, I’m going to die.”‘

She recounts how he ordered her into the bathroom ‘and I couldn’t run there fast enough,’ she says. ‘He was a bug-eyed fellow and his eyes were not reliable [because of the drugs].

‘A few minutes later he rattled the door and I thought to myself: “Come on, Stephanie. You’re being disgracefully snivelling. Now, what would Jodie Foster do?” I don’t know why I thought of Jodie Foster and what she does in that film [Panic Room],’ she admits.

‘But do you know what I did? I picked up a sponge that was on the end of a plastic stick and I was holding it like some sort of weapon. I mean, what exactly was I going to do?’ she asks. ‘Wash his face?’

As Wilson stole items including her purse, mobile phone and keys, she waited in there, in terror.

‘It was fortunate my jewellery was kept elsewhere and I was very lucky. I was about to do some gardening, so I didn’t have any rings on. I’ve had my jewellery burgled before — all my grandmother’s precious things — and it’s awful because they take your memories with them.’

The police, she says, ‘were amazing. [Wilson] was on my CCTV swinging his crowbar and they caught him. I said to the CID guy a few weeks later when I was giving my statement that I felt a bit bad because he only broke open my conservatory and stole a few credit cards and my keys — all the normal rubbish [burglars] do to make your life a misery. But he looked at me and said: “No. I heard your 999 call. You thought you were going to die.” And that was true.’

For while she is, one soon gathers, not one to wallow in self-pity, the effects from that day understandably linger. In her victim statement read in court last year, she admitted experiencing panic attacks and difficulties learning lines for her role in Corrie.

There was an understandable change, too, in how she viewed the home where she had lived happily for 25 years. ‘I’d always thought of this as my little secret cottage, but you experience something like this and it affects you,’ she says.

‘There’s no point in pretending it doesn’t. When I came back down to London from [filming in] Manchester a week after it had happened, a friend of mine had got the place ready. But I could see a hologram, almost, of [Wilson] still in my bedroom and I thought to myself: “How dare he!” It’s nasty even talking about it now.’ 

Wilson pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and was jailed for ten years and five months. ‘I do think: poor man. He was a drug addict needing money for drugs, I suppose, and even his face was cut from falling through the conservatory.

‘It’s quite correct that he should not get away with what he did, but also, to be on drugs because your life is so bad that you need to hide away from it, well,’ she says, ‘you can see the wretchedness.’

Immediately after the burglary, Stephanie’s then 21-year-old grandson, Jude, offered to come and stay with her. ‘I mean, you’ve got other things to do at 21 than care about your grandmother, but he got on his white charger for me.

‘So, really,’ she continues, ‘how lucky am I? When I wake up in the morning, I still feel like a child because I realise that this day, too, I will learn something new. It’s amazing my life is still turning corners I didn’t think I’d see.’

That’s also true of her career. Last month saw the release of the romantic sci-fi thriller, Forever Young, in which she stars with Diana Quick, while audiences will see a new side to her in the incredibly moving film Grey Matter, out next week, playing a grandmother with Alzheimer’s.

‘I went through that journey with my father who had it,’ she says. ‘It was a challenging and humbling experience to play that wandering mind and investigate that childlike panic. It tore our family to shreds seeing him go from this wonderful, gentle man to nothing.’

Born in Barnet, one of four children to Joan, a housewife, and Alec, an insurance executive, by 17 Stephanie had already left school to study mime in Paris. Despite being born deaf in one ear, it proved little barrier and by her early 20s she was starring opposite Marlon Brando in the Michael Winner film, The Nightcomers.

She began dating her celebrated co-star, ‘and he was a wild animal,’ she recalls fondly, ‘a great big bear… and a very good friend. I wasn’t in love with him, but I loved him and he cared for me.’

When Brando’s son, Christian, was sent to prison in 1991 for a fatal shooting, Stephanie phoned her former beau. ‘And I think I was the only person who did call him,’ she says. ‘I told him: “I feel like a rabbit trying to help a bear because I don’t think there’s anything I can do, but I’m here for you.” I think he appreciated it as he phoned me every day after that for ages.’

Brando even acted as Stephanie’s unofficial intimacy co-ordinator — before such things even existed — by donning wellies and a huge set of Y-Fronts himself during a love scene for The Nightcomers, ‘because he didn’t trust Michael Winner not to shoot the whole of me naked,’ she says. ‘So you see my t**s flying everywhere onscreen, but nothing below the waist and that’s because of him.’

Other experiences were unfortunately far worse. Eight years ago she admitted she had been raped in the early 1970s, ‘and that was the most awfully stupid thing I’ve ever said. It’s such a personal thing, your own experience, and I had absolutely no intention of talking about it, but I fell into a headline during the whole #MeToo thing.’

Of the movement itself, she says: ‘It’s important women no longer think that it’s all their fault and that men understand they have the responsibility to act as human beings and do not have the right to be predatorial.

‘On the other hand, there is also a basic dance between men and women that must also not go missing. It’s a complex picture.’

Throughout her career, Stephanie has had her own brushes with unsavoury men. ‘There was a lot of predatory behaviour,’ she says of the 1970s. ‘I was lucky because I realised that if I was fast on my feet and fast in my mind, I could avoid the traps. I even had a £5 note sewn inside the lining of my coat to pay for a cab if I ever got into an awkward situation.’

Her canniness, however, couldn’t prevent her from being blacklisted from Hollywood.

When producer Joseph E. Levine promised her an Oscar nomination for her role in The Nightcomers if she stripped for Playboy, Stephanie refused and Levine promptly pronounced her ‘dead in this business’. It was 15 years before she worked in Hollywood again.

When she did return, with Dynasty, it was with a bang. Though she had been working non-stop in theatre, it was still hard raising her daughters — Phoebe, now 49, and Chloe, 47 — as a single mother after her divorce from actor John McEnery in 1979.

Did she and Joan Collins have some fun nights out together at the height of their fame? ‘We never went on the town together. She never understood — and then she got it — that I was never going to be competition to her socially.

‘She liked the best table at [famous LA restaurant] Chasen’s and I didn’t need that. Just leave me to my surfer dudes and put me on the beach with those rolling waves and I’m in heaven.’

The surfer dudes are now a thing of the past. After relationships with men including Eric Clapton and Imran Khan, as well as a well-publicised fondness for younger men (‘I took them in as boys of 27 and sent them off as men of 32,’ she once joked), she has been happily ensconced with doctor Bernie Greenwood, 84, for 16 years.

He proposed in 2013, ‘but we can never agree on the same sort of wedding! He would just like to be married, I think, and I feel: if it ain’t broke, why fix it? I think he’s given up now.’

Looking back on her life, Stephanie is thankful for the foundations her parents laid down and magnanimous about the times things haven’t gone to plan.

‘I had the advantage of loving parents, a good education and a lovely home, so I just feel so blessed,’ she says, adding: ‘But then anybody who has jumped at life and swallowed it whole as I have has made some corking mistakes. That’s just the way it goes.’

One surprising miscalculation was taking part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2007. The invariably upbeat Stephanie is unusually negative about her experience: ‘Hated every minute of it, darling.’

Why? ‘A friend of mine had just committed suicide and I said: “I really can’t do this now” and they said, “You must do it, it’ll be fun.”‘

‘But you can’t do Strictly for fun. You really need to have the intention to win or to lose weight or to do all those other things, so I loathed it. It was the wrong time and it just wasn’t a fit for me.’

It was recently reported that actress Amanda Abbington had been diagnosed with PTSD after her Strictly appearance and had asked BBC bosses to hand over footage of her rehearsals with partner, Giovanni Pernice. (The BBC insists Strictly ‘has always taken duty of care incredibly seriously’).

‘The thing is, most of us don’t understand quite how hard dancers work,’ says Stephanie, ‘and you suddenly have to get a dancer’s ethic… it is quite alarming and it is enormously frightening and I’d say, if you’re not used to being frightened, don’t do something like Strictly.’

And in that delightfully forthright manner of hers, she adds: ‘After all, it’s just a wretched show!’

• Grey Matter is out in selected cinemas from Monday; go to w4films.co.uk to see listings. Forever Young is available to stream now on digital platforms.

Brad Pitt, 60, showed off his incredible muscular physique as he recently filmed new racing movie Apex at NASCAR hub Daytona International Speedway, Florida – amid wild TikTok rumors that he has undergone a facelift.

The Oscar-winning actor showed off his muscular physique and ripped arms in a tight white top, worn under a white and blue racing suit as he strolled between takes.

The handsome star looked in good spirits as he chatted with crew members before having his make-up touched up before filming began.

In the film, the Fight Club star plays former F1 driver Sonny Hayes, who has come out of retirement to team up with a newcomer (Damson Idris) and compete against the sport's biggest titans.

Joseph Kosinski, known for his work on Top Gun: Maverick, will direct the film.

Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton will co-produce the film with Plan B Entertainment and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

While attending the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Las Vegas late last November, producer Jerry Bruckheimer opened up about the film.

“Filmed yesterday and out next year,” he told Entertainment Tonight. 'It will be very exciting. Brad Pitt is racing, we did some background footage and we'll be back here next year.”

Recently, fans speculated that he got a facelift after a TikTok video of a doctor commenting on his ageless looks went viral.

His fans call him the real Benjamin Button because he appeared to age backwards after being photographed at Wimbledon last year.

In 2008, Brad played a man who ages in reverse in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.

In an Instagram video, facial esthetician and former NHS doctor Dr. Jonny Betteridge that there is a major clue that Brad secretly underwent the operation, which could cost more than £100,000 and a recovery period of two to three months.

Brad never revealed whether he underwent the knife, but Dr. Jonny, founder of the London clinic JB aestheticsspeculated that it has had a facelift.

The doctor compared photos of the Hollywood star taken at the 2020 Academy Awards to last July, when he sat on center court at Wimbledon.

He said, 'TThat was him four years ago in 2020 and you can see he is showing the normal signs of aging.

'Deep static lines, loss of volume in the eyes and center of the face and some sagging skin on the lower face.

'It was at Wimbledon last year where his transformation was noticed. Look at the change in his face and how more youthful he looks when you see him in profile from the side.

You can see that the change in the lower facial contour is really impressive and you can see that this is related to a facelift by looking at this scar.”

Dr. Jonny claimed Brad's ear had the “classic look of a facelift scar.”

He explains: 'During the procedure, the skin around them is lifted, which can change the shape and position of the earlobes.

“He's almost gone back in time to what his face looked like in the early 2000s, which is also ironic because he played Benjamin Button.

'There is a three year difference between these photos and it is clear to see the changes around the center and bottom surfaces.

'I think he looks seriously good for this transformation, it's a great example of surgery done right.'

After the video's success, Dr. Jonny The sun: 'The Brad video has gone viral because people can't believe how good he looks at 60.

'Looking at the pictures I've posted, Brad looks like he could have had a facelift. The changes in that time are significant.

“To get that level of facial and contour lift, especially in the mid and lower face, you can't achieve those results with non-surgical methods.”

Brad's representatives declined to comment when contacted by MailOnline.

A source close to Brad denied that he had undergone a facelift.

While many in Hollywood have great mysteries about their ageless looks, Brad has previously spoken about his stance on aging.

In an interview with Esquire, he said: 'You get older, you get grumpier and comfort becomes more important. I think it's that simple.'

When asked about his beauty regimen, he hilariously said, “I grew up with a country mentality, you know, turn on soap once a day and then move on…

“And I think we learn that if we love ourselves, if we treat ourselves a little bit better, there are long-lasting benefits. So just healthy aging, healthy aging.'

Another major factor in his appearance, Brad claims, was his decision to quit smoking, explaining that he realized he couldn't just 'cut back' – it was all or nothing.

He continued, “I don't have the ability to do just one or two a day. It's not in my makeup. I'm all in. And I'm going to drive into the ground. I have lost my privileges.'

The actor has been in a relationship with Ines de Ramon, 32, for over a year now.

Labor’s snap cost-of-living meeting has concluded with unanimous support for a rejig of the Stage Three tax cuts.

Details of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposal had leaked throughout the day, with low and middle income earners given a much bigger boost at the expense of the top end of town.

At 4pm, he held a caucus meeting with Labor MPs in Canberra to discuss these changes. 

By 5.30pm it appeared all over, as MPs slowly began filing out of the room, coy about the specific details Mr Albanese has vowed to share tomorrow, during his speech at the National Press Club.

Despite concerns about the optics of ‘breaking an election promise’ to maintain the tax cuts in full, everyone in the room reportedly backed the call in the end, enticed by the temptation to help struggling middle Australia through the cost of living crisis.

It’s understood Labor will reduce the tax rate for people earning between $19,000 and $45,000 will be reduced from 19 per cent to 16 per cent.

Earlier Cabinet leaks revealed key parts of the Stage Three tax cuts most beneficial to high income earners above $180,000 would be scrapped. 

The former Coalition government drew up the legislation before the Covid pandemic and the current cost of living crisis, and was due to come into effect on July 1.

The original plan had no tax cuts at all for those earning under $45,000, and only gave those on $60,000 an extra $375 a year.

High earners bringing in more than $180,000 a year were in line for a bumper $9,075 tax cut – but that has been slashed by almost half in the PM’s revamp.

Now part-time workers and the very low paid are expected to be able to earn up to $19,000 a year tax-free under the new proposals, up from $18,200.

That alone is worth up to an extra $152 a year for those on $19,000-a-year.

And those earning between $19,001 and $45,000 are expected to be taxed at just 16c in the dollar, down from the current 19c. That will give those on $45,000 a year an extra $932 a year. 

The marginal 32.5c tax rate is set to be cut to 30c and the tax band for middle-income workers is also increasing from $120,000 to $135,000, according to the leaks out of Cabinet.

Those on $120,000 a year will now be $2,807 a year better off, while those on $135,000 will benefit by a total of $3,857 a year.

The previous Stage Three tax plans were set to scrap the 37c tax rate entirely for medium to high earners, but the new plans will now retain that, but tweak the tax bands.

Under the new proposal, earnings between $135,001 and the higher $190,000 (up from $180,000) will be hit for 37c in every dollar.

Those on up to $180,000 will also be $3,857 a year better off than they currently are, while those on $190,000 or more will pay $4,657 a year less tax than they do now.

That means the tax bonus for the nation’s top earners has been almost halved compared with the previous Stage Three proposals.

The planned tax cuts had intended to push the top tax tier out to $200,000 before high earners got hit by the 45c in the dollar rate. But the new scheme has capped that at $190,000.

The move will bring in much bigger tax cuts for low and medium earners, while top earners will still be better off than they currently are, but not as much as they would have been under the original proposal.

But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s sudden overhaul doesn’t go far enough, say economists, who argue the country’s tax brackets have been stagnant for 16 years and are long overdue a facelift.

POLITICAL FIRESTORM 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been caught in a political storm this week over the move to scrap the legislated tax cuts which he had promised to keep.

He said he was ‘a man of his word’ on the tax cuts and insisted ‘my word is my bond’.

The proposals were legislated by the Coalition government while still in power, but at the election, Labor committed to still bringing them in as planned on July 1 this year.

But on Tuesday, Labor ministers met in Canberra for an urgent meeting to overhaul the tax proposals as a response to the cost of living crisis.

‘This proposal will be all about supporting Middle Australia,’ the PM insisted on Wednesday, saying he would reveal more details in a speech to the National Press Club on Thursday.

‘We know that there are cost of living pressures on Middle Australia, and we’re determined to follow the Treasury advice to provide assistance to them.’

The overhaul was welcomed by tax specialist H & R Block’s Director of Tax, Mark Chapman, who said the previous model was unfairly skewed to high earners.

‘The government’s redesign of the stage three tax cuts is a welcome recalibration of the original tax cuts package, introduced several years ago by the former Liberal government,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘The heavy weighting of the original package towards those on the highest incomes is difficult to justify in the current economic climate.

‘With the cost of living impacting disproportionately on those low and middle income taxpayers, this will provide some much needed extra cash in the pockets of hard working families to pay mortgages, food and fuel bills.’

OUTDATED TAX BANDS 

However economists have warned the existing top tax rates are out of date and badly need reform.

The top rate currently kicks in for those on annual salaries of $180,000 or more, when big earners are then hit for 45c on every dollar earned above that.

That elite tax tier has remained the same since it was set in 2008 – and Callam Pickering, senior economist with the Indeed employment website, says the figure has failed to keep pace with rising wages.

He says that allowing for inflation, the top tax bracket in 2024 should really start at $270,000 to target the same level of high earners as intended in 2008.

But even the new leaked the Stage Three tax reform – due to come into effect on July 1 – only proposes to increase it to $190,000, down from $200,000 in the Coalition’s plan.

‘We should be taxing income a lot less than we do,’ added Mr Pickering in a post to X, advocating higher taxable income brackets.

‘We should be taxing wealth a lot more. 

‘There’s no valid reason why the tax free threshold and top marginal rate are so low.’

The total cost to government income of the Stage Tax Three tax cuts as planned would have been a breathtaking $313billion over the next 10 years.

Next year alone, the original planned cuts were set to hand back $11.7billion in total to the nation’s top 10 percent who earn more than $153,000 a year, according to figures from the Australia Institute.

BUDGET IMPACT 

That figure was more than the entire national annual budget to fund Australian universities, which costs $11.5billion, and almost as much as the government spends on the Australian Army, at $12.5billion, says the institute.

By comparison, the institute says just $4.9billion would have been shared between the millions earning less than $113,000 a year – 80 per cent of all Australian workers – under the cuts.

Those earning less than $45,000 would have received nothing at all under the original legislation. 

The left-leaning lobby group added: ‘The Stage 3 tax cuts [were] massively expensive and massively unfair.

‘Australia is in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis and the Stage 3 tax cuts [would have] deliver[ed} zero for those struggling to make ends meet on the minimum wage or low incomes.

‘They [would have given] bankers, surgeons, and MPs an extra $9075 a year, while [hospitality] workers get nothing.’

It added: ‘The Stage 3 tax cuts were promised in wildly different economic circumstances. 

‘We’re now facing a cost of living crisis, skyrocketing inflation, and a potential recession.’

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is set to deliver the new tax plans at the next federal budget, expected in June, to replace the legislated introduction of the Stage Three tax cuts on July 1.

‘BROKEN PROMISES’

Despite the PM’s pledge that he was a ‘man of his word’ when quizzed about committing to the Coalition’s Stage Three cuts in 2022, he later insisted he was just committed to reducing taxes.

The PM told the Kyle and Jackie O show on Tuesday: ‘I support tax cuts. Everyone will be getting a tax cut.

‘Across the board, what we’re looking at is how we can help low and middle income earners.

‘Middle Australia particularly is doing it really tough. People have a mortgage so we’re looking at ways in which we can provide assistance to them.’

But the move to change the Stage Three tax cuts has been branded the ‘mother of all broken promises’ by shadow treasurer Angus Taylor.

‘This is something that the Prime Minister and Treasurer have committed to over 100 times,’ he told Seven’s Sunrise on Tuesday. ‘It is in legislation and Labor voted for it.

‘It has been to two elections – this is not something you change. 

‘Frankly if the Prime Minister decides he wants to change this it tells us… his word means absolutely nothing.

‘Because there has not been a promise with so much commitment behind it from both sides of politics for a long time, certainly in my time in politics.’

By Richard Barber for the Daily Mail

Published: 5:01 PM EST, January 14, 2024 | Updated: 5:10 PM EST, January 14, 2024

Brandi Glanville has detailed the latest twist in her facial disfigurement story, revealing she was given the devastating news that she is not a candidate for surgery.

The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 51, was left disfigured by stress-induced angioedema – a condition that causes swelling under the skin – after facing claims she inappropriately touched her costar Caroline Manzo.

The reality star has now opened up on her podcast about her road to recovery, Brandi Glanville Unfilteredin which she also praised her ex-husband’s wife LeAnn Rimes for her supportive gifts.

In an exclusive clip from an upcoming episode, she told co-host James Maas, “Now that the swelling is going down…I’m trying to figure out with a doctor how to get my skin tight. again.

“A very established doctor told me I’m not a candidate because my skin is very tight.”

In July, the Bravo star was forced to deny she had gone under the knife when fans began speculating about her changed appearance.

Months later, Brandi was hospitalized after her face “blew up like a basketball” — a problem she said was “partly” due to the stress she was under from the “threat of a bad edit” of Bravo’s Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip.

She tweeted at the time: “I collapsed at home this morning and my son had to call 911 for help! You have no idea how much stress I’m under.”

The star is now working with a plastic surgeon to overcome her condition.

Elsewhere in the podcast, she also discussed the support she received from her ex-husband Eddie Cibrian’s wife, LeAnn.

Brandi and Eddie had an acrimonious split in 2010 after he had an affair with the 40-year-old singer. However, the trio has now become a happy ‘modern family’ that often spends the holidays together.

The mother-of-two made it clear it was all water under the bridge as she gushed about their ‘really good’ relationship.

She explained: ‘We have a very good relationship and I cherish that, because a lot of people [are shocked].

“Some of my friends still hold on to what happened in the past and hate her, but I think, ‘Guys, we’ve grown and we’ve changed. We’re different people now.’

She continued, “It’s good to have people I can trust. They know some of my secrets… and I trust they won’t say anything.”

Brandi added that Eddie and LeAnn came to visit her at the hospital, and that LeAnn recently gave her a thoughtful gift after the pair “bonded” over skin care.

‘We gave presents [at Christmas],’ she said. ‘It’s funny because Leanne and I always bonded over skin care. We would get these little machines. Last year I gave her a small radio frequency device for Christmas, and this year she gave me a cute device that she likes.

“I’m thinking, ‘How do you like these machines?’ One of them cost $700, but it was really good. I certainly enjoyed it.’

She continued, “It’s funny because on my gifts she always writes: love Lea, not Lea and Eddie. She obviously bought it for me, it’s hers. It is a facial instrument. I doubt Eddie went with her and figured it out with her.”

Earlier this year, Brandi revealed that her ability to talk and taste food was affected by stress-induced angioedema.

She told Entertainment Tonight that her lips and face first became swollen in August, saying: ‘I’ve had some health issues that have affected my ability to talk and my ability to taste food. My face actually swelled up – like I was… in constant anaphylactic shock, and I saw seven doctors, and their answer was that it was stress-induced angioedema.

‘I cried on my birthday. It was on November 16th. I cried all night, and I thought this was my new normal. I would just never look or feel the same again. I just wanted to be a giant pumpkin head, and even now I’m getting tired of talking.

“So I didn’t do my podcast for a few months because I just had to stop and take breaks. It’s insane. I took my health for granted.’

Her condition was reportedly sparked by reports that she allegedly kissed Caroline non-consensually and inappropriately touched her breasts and genitals during their trip to Marrakech, Morocco for Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club last January.

She later branded the allegations a ‘f*****g set-up’.

Brandi Glanville Unfiltered is available on all podcast platforms and full episodes are available on YouTube.

By Zeenia Naqvee

Published: 07:02 EST, December 11, 2023 | Updated: 07:07 EST, December 11, 2023