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The truth about Anne's new face?

Richard Kay

Last updated at 00:00 02 April 2004

FOR more than a week, it has been the biggest talking point in showbusiness - just how has quiz- show queen Anne Robinson knocked 20 years off her face?

The speculation started after the 59-year-old unflappable host of The Weakest Link appeared on Channel Five's Terry And Gaby Show looking remarkably freshfaced.

Anne - who admits to having had Botox injections in the past - coyly suggested she simply had good makeup artists.

Some - including eminent plastic surgeons - said she must have had a facelift.

Women across the nation just wanted to know one thing: could they have it, too?

Now, I can reveal that friends say she has had a radical treatment called laser resurfacing.

She paid, I am told, Pounds 3,000 for the lasering and Pounds 250 for Botox injections beforehand at the exclusive Cranley Clinic in London's West End.

Anne was under the care of the top man in the field, consultant dermatologist Dr Nicholas Lowe, who is also a consultant at Middlesex Hospital and a clinical professor at UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles.

He tells me: 'Laser resurfacing involves a procedure where we use sophisticated lasers to vapourise the damage of the outer skin layers, damage caused by the sun and ageing and so forth.

'The laser tightens the skin and also causes a significant formation of new collagen.

'The collagen rejuvenates and supports the skin, and this can last anywhere from between five to ten years.' Dr Lowe - who said he was unable to comment on individual clients - said laser resurfacing can be performed on parts or all of the face.

Last night, Anne's agent declined to comment.

She said: 'If she has anything to say on this subject, she will say it in her own newspaper column.'