How does Dame Arlene Phillips look so good at 80?

Phillips has been open about trying tweakments in the past, but has said that she draws the line at a full face lift. She needn’t worry: so advanced are the skin-improving tweakments on offer now that there is no need to go under the knife – or even in hiding for four weeks to recover. Some skincare, some injectables and some machines – the winning trifecta for anti-ageing that Phillips favours – is the modern way to look your best as you age.

In 2021, aged 78, Phillips starred in I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here; the same year she had a series of cosmetic tweakments. Facial aesthetician Ana Sakinyte administered anti-wrinkle treatment Botox to Phillips’ forehead lines and crows feet, and at the time told The Telegraph that she took a “soft approach” to Phillips’ treatments.

Sakinyte also shared that Phillips was concerned about sagging to her lower face. It was corrected by using a filler from the Teoxane RHA range, which costs around £200 per area and lasts around 18 months. They were also planning to do the injectable skin moisturiser Profhilo, which is a hyaluronic acid treatment injected beneath the skin to help correct and remodel sagging tissue. At the time Phillips said “seeing Ana has given me a glorious feeling to my face and skin”.

Injectable treatments aside, there has been a new wave of machines on the market that can do all the lifting and stretching for you. In late 2022 Phillips had a course of EmFace, an innovative treatment from the same company that launched EmSculpt, which involved pads placed on the body to mimic thousands of crunches in one 30-minute session (it’s a huge hit in Hollywood as you can expect).