Brian Paddick 

What I see in the mirror

Brian Paddick on holding on to his hair and being shown up by Simon Webbe
  
  

Brian Paddick
Brian Paddick. Photograph: Guardian Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian

I'm reasonably content with my look. I'm 6ft 2in, with light blue eyes. People say I look a lot younger than 51. I don't know why the wrinkles haven't attacked me yet, but I am sure they will come soon.

They used to say that a man is as young as the woman he feels, but in my case it's my young husband, Petter, who is 37 - he gave me a pebble with "You're perfect" engraved in it, and he says it must be true because it's written in stone.

The hair is doing a lot better than my twin brother's, thank goodness - John is getting very thin on top, but I'm holding on to mine. When John came to our wedding reception, many of my friends didn't believe we were brothers, let alone twins.

I would like to be fitter than I am. Before I went on I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!, I worked really hard in the gym for weeks with a personal trainer to get in shape, so it was very annoying to go into the jungle and be shamed by Simon Webbe (the singer who was in the boyband Blue). Despite all my best efforts, he still showed me up.

People say I look better in the flesh than I do on television, to which I always answer, "Well, it's much better that way round."

When an ex did a kiss and tell story on me a few years ago, he said that I used Clarins skincare products, which I was outraged by at the time because I didn't. But I do use them now.

 

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