everyone who was once young is looking old

[Owllady]

I'm watching breakfast tv for the first time in years
Tony Mortimer!
Jason Donovan
Eddie izzard all looking much older
Lorraine Kelly looks younger
It's not them it's me isn't it?

Crikey and now they are making star fried eggs

[vladthedisorganised]

I watched Ride as a starry-eyed youth in 1993, amazed that I was finally getting to see the beautiful indie gods that gazed down from my walls and cheered me up while I was doing my homework. A beautiful sound, a beautiful sight.

I watched a YouTube clip of Ride the other day. Mark Gardner had a shorn head, a flat cap and a polo shirt, Andy Bell had a slightly grizzly beard. Still sound exactly the same though. (Then again, the starry-eyed teenager now has 'badger stripe' hair herself, along with a fair few wrinkles...)

[Frostycake]

Ha ha! Mitzy at

Yes, baby faced cuties at 20 tend to look a bit goblin like at 50.

Brilliant comment and so true.

I'm approaching 50 and my old male school friends are starting to look like trolls and goblins. Their noses and ears are massive. It has to be said though that the majority of the women I knew from school are aging very well indeed (some look even younger than they did 20 years ago). I've seen this phenonenon mentioned on the dating thread.

[GoldenSpaceCadet]

I don't like the way men sometimes get hairy earlobes and wild nasal hair curling out of nostrils.......
I really don't like my jowells


On the plus side it's great to no longer experience the angst of youth.
Sean Bean is looking quite craggy but I still fancy him

[CallMeExhausted]

Shes the odd thing is that so many other people are getting old, but I am not. My DS is almost 18, but I am still 29.

I am just not sure why the mirror says I am fully grey and have wrinkles beyond my age which is 29, I swear it . They must be broken.

Oh, and the gravity in this region seems to be stronger than where I grew up. Nothing else logical can explain the sagging.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

vladthedisorganised Ride's Mark Gardner is a perfect example of a baby faced cutie who has ummmm, changed somewhat in middle age.

Whereas someone like Jerome Flynn who has a face looks like a 700 year old leather bag is so much more attractive than his 90s self.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

Frosty I know what you mean. There's a myth (based on George Clooney alone I think) that says men age better than women but looking around me I just can't see that it's true!

[LoisWilkersonsLastNerve]

who has a face looks like a 700 year old leather bag

[RiverWhy]

Yes, baby faced cuties at 20 tend to look a bit goblin like at 50.

[LoisWilkersonsLastNerve]

I think Harry will age well.

[Postchildrenpregranny]

DH ,no oil painting when I met him (30) has aged rather well- a lot better than many of my friends' DHs . .. Still has lots of George-Clooney type hair which helps. And brutal DD2 bought him a nose- hair clipper and nags him to use it .
I think I've aged OK from the neck up, but the body rather lets me down .
What is really disconcerting is when you see a long- term friend you havent seen for a while and catch yourself thinking 'Gosh, X has aged' Then you realise they are in all likelihood thinking the same thing .

[Postchildrenpregranny]

Paul MCCartney
Cliff Richards
but Tom Jones is dong OK Craggy works better than baby fced , for sure

[Gruntfuttock]

I've never found Leonardo diCaprio attractive at all, and he's slowly but surely been morphing into Jack Nicholson for years now.

[Topseyt]

I remember Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt as fairly young men in the heyday of Status Quo some 25 - 30 years ago.

Noddy Holder from Slade too. I like him and he still pops up on TV occasionally.

Yes too to Cliff Richard and Paul McCartney. Barry Gibb of Bee Gees.

They were my era really. Dates me. I am 49.

[FishOn]

DH and I had a WTF moment in the pub the other day when we realised he's soon to be 50. How the fuck did that happen? He was only 27 last week, it feels like.

He's aging better than me - he's got more chiseled and crinkly eyed.

I've got jowels.

Johnny Depp's gone right down the pan in the last couple of years

[Topseyt]

My DH is 52 now. I am 49 as I said.

I remember us when we met as students. I was 19 and he was 22. We were never going to get old. We would always be young and cool. I don't think then that we could ever have pictured ourselves as a pair of mid-lifers married for 22 years with 3 DDs, the eldest of whom will be 21 next May!!

I guess it gets a little bit scary. Sometimes I hear a song on the radio that I remember well from my teenage years, and I am horrified to find that it must be more than 30 years old.

[TopOfTheCliff]

I went to meet my first BF last summer at a marina with his family. I spotted him up the mast of a boat. As I got closer I saw a fat bald man at the bottom of the mast shouting instructions. Horror of horrors! The fat bald man was my old BF aged 30 years and the slim attractive youth was his son!
I remember now that at 19 he hated to think he would turn into his father and at 50 he has!!
Still funny and generous and pleased to see me though, even if I am not a slim leggy blonde any more!

[Mintyy]

All I will say is Andy Bell from Erasure.

Oh, and David Essex of course.

[katemiddletonsothermum]

morriszap - LOL at Harry Enfield!

[katemiddletonsothermum]

I once went to meet my husband from work. I was walking down the street and thought "Ugh, who is this horrible old tramp coming towards me?"

It was my husband. So I divorced him. He was only 34.

My SECOND husband looks like Benedict Cumberbatch's older brother and I'm very happy now, thank you.

[Sparklingbrook]

I was always a John Taylor fan but these days it's all about Simon Le Bon. On the whole I think Duran Duran look pretty much as you would expect for a bunch of men in their mid to late fifties.

Obviously ideally they would be frozen in time circa 1982 just like myself.

[ShesAStar]

Harry Styles will deffinatley go the way of the Goblin. Just look at his nose!

[Sparklingbrook]

I can't believe Harry Hairstyles is still only 21. he looks much older.

[BaronessSamedi]

Kate Moss is looking rough.
Johnny Depp has gone to the dogs.
Its high time Jerry Hall cut that hair. Doesn't have to be short. just shorter.
Naomi Campbell looks very wiggy these days.
Saw a candid photo of Gisele Bundchen. Looks her age now.

[Owllady]

Liam Payne is ageing the best (atm) out of one direction, but I feel like their mother

[Sparklingbrook]

I am not sure which one is which. I think I know who Niall is he looks about 15.