I spent £40,000 on 13 hair transplants because I wanted to look like TV heartthrob – don’t make the same mistake I did

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Natalie, who he met aged 26 while travelling in New Zealand, had known from the beginning of their relationship and fully supported him.

“She’s a real rock,” he says. “Other people were stunned. When I pulled my hat off they’d look astonished as I now had a full head of hair and they would say things like, ‘I didn’t recognise you’.

“In 2020 I had a procedure which left me happy. It was carried out at London’s Harley Street Hair Clinic, where footballer Wayne Rooney had his treatments...