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Rupert Everett: no facelift and I'm going off sex
"Some people are spreading rumours about me. Come on, look for yourself. You won't find any marks or scars. I have not had a face lift."
In an interview with David Wigg in today's Mail, Rupert Everett again denies rumours that have been circulating for months that he's had a facelift - and says that at 50 he's going off sex. The speculation was fuelled by a photograph (one that he claims lost him a job) in a celebrity magazine that showed him orange-faced and curiously unlined.
"Some people are spreading rumours about me. Come on, look for yourself. You won't find any marks or scars. I have not had a face lift. Do you see any marks of any kind?" (Wigg agrees that he can't see a line or scar, even after Everett gets him to check behind his ears for skin tucks).
"Yes, those images went all the way around the world and at one point I even lost a job from a great Australian director because of him seeing the before and after images in a newspaper. You can protest as much as you like, but they just doctor the photos."
When Wigg draws the obvious parallel between Everett's sex life and his Channel 4 documentary The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron, Everett says: "Byron was scandalous. He was obsessed with sex, which of course, the TV people loved and wanted to show, and he was political - so that's when I really started learning more about him.
"My lasting image is that he was an extremely courageous character. He was disabled by a withered foot, but did not let that come between him and his determination to become a sex symbol, which is not only brave, but simply marvellous. And he was so brash. You can see how, playing through his life, he had a great appetite for sex, which I loved, and he had huge issues with intimacy, which are all fascinating."
But when asked if he thought that like Byron he was a worshipper of sex, Everett replies: "No, I have been, but I'm 50 and he was 33. I'm not so interested in it at the moment."
