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Ahead of his BBC NI documentary tonight, broadcaster Gerry Anderson tells why hair loss has driven some men, including his actor pal Jimmy Nesbitt, to some extraordinary measures

othing is more certain Those early signs — the over-pop- thinning barnet. Think of what ger and point when his back is the same baldy boat always keep balding pate makes us less of a to strike terror into the ulated hairbrush, the blocked our victim imagines this fate en- turned. schtum). man. heart of a man in his shower drain, many lonely strands tails. In addition, he will eventually He will therefore quickly learn How this ever came about no- early 20s than the clinging to the sides of the bath — He is certain that women will learn that only those with luxuri- about the quintessential cruelty of one is sure. N creeping realisation all point to the sinister inevitabil- no longer fancy him. He senses ant thatches will loudly point out man. This is because we are some- I blame Samson myself. that he may be losing his hair. ity of a young life blighted by a that his friends may silently snig- that his is wearing thin (those in how conditioned to believe that a CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 BELFAST TELEGRAPH TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 2012 22 LIFE

like these celebs? Did Gerry get a transplant

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 and gave up. But now look around ly in America, to New York, they couldn’t be bothered groom- you. Look at Jimmy Nesbitt, Louis enough to turn their heads ... Philadelphia, Los Angeles and ing or looking after it. I met a few I know that cutting hair off isn’t Walsh, Rob Brydon and every- sundry points in between, to talk of these men in the salon. They are the same thing as balding but body who’s ever been on a televi- to the world’s greatest authori- strange people. somehow the thought that a man sion judging panel. A hundred n Northern Irish actor James n After years of hiding under ties on hair replacement proce- I thought, this could pass for a is rendered weak because he has others. Transplanted to a man. Nesbitt went public with his hats, Dancing on Ice judge Jason dures and research. bouncer factory. less hair seems to spring from All ace barnets miraculously hair transplant in 2010 after try- Gardiner forked out £30,000 for My eyes were opened and my In New York, I met Joseph Paris that particular source. Samson sprouted in areas that were fallow ing various methods to slow his a hair transplant last year.Part follicles were often rattled. Amer- (probably not his real name) who, was first balded, then blinded. He before. hair loss of the procedure was revealed icans, of course, God love them, al- for decades, made and looked probably figured the first was There are other names that live on the internet ways take things a step further. after Frank Sinatra’s wigs at home worst. would astound you but my lips n In 2011 Manchester United The oddest solution to male and on tour. But if that newly-thinning must necessarily remain sealed. footballer Wayne Rooney re- n X Factor judge Louis Walsh baldness I came across was in Los He proudly showed me a cabi- young man is reading this, let portedly paid £30,000 for his has given a resounding ‘Yes’ to Angeles where a gentleman and net containing eight of Frank’s him take comfort from the news was in St Eugene’s Cathedral hair transplant operation. He his own £30,000 hair transplant his many cohorts eke out a tidy liv- wigs worn at different stages in that he can now do something choir in Stroke City when I was immediately went public and which he said he had done after ing by tattooing the heads of bald the singer’s life. about his receding hairline, some- Ia boy and one of our greatest joked about it prompting by Simon Cowell men. To what possible end, I hear They grey gradually to a dull thing that will definitely work. pleasures was staring down at the some of you ask. white. It looked to me like a dis- There was a time (and I speak congregation from the lofty choir play of senior citizen scalps, or, al- of no more than a decade ago) eyrie in a bid to ascertain which of could be spotted lurking down a for the news that bald men need ell, now we’re getting ternatively, a family of culled when a balding man with all the us could spot the most wigs. I carelessly protruding sideburn, never be bald again, provided they down to something en- badgers. money in the world couldn’t get once counted eight definites, two and secondly, the hair stuck have a shekel or two to spare. Wtirely different. It seems As I write this, I have by my his hair back (wigs don’t count, as probables and a solitary possible. straight out at the back of the col- I have seen the future and it is that, in Los Angeles, men will pay side, a Laser Cap, $5,000 worth of will be discussed later). And this is Derry/Londonderry, lar, like a duck’s arse. the hair transplant. The fruit of my $5,000 a pop to have their heads jiggery-pokery that is basically a I give you Elton John. Nobody not exactly the most affluent place And I am sure that those men labours can be seen in a docu- tattooed to look as if they have the laser light system that can be con- had more money than he and no- in the world. But we had wigs, fell into the trap that awaits the mentary on BBC NI tonight. equivalent of a 5 o’clock shadow cealed under a baseball cap, the body looked more stupid as he cheap wigs, and vain, fearless men wearers of wigs, a trap into which It’s called ‘Gerry Anderson’s on their skulls. wearer’s skull being covertly bom- laboured and sweated under a who wore them. These cheap hair- they usually plunge — the trap Losing It’ and it is necessarily au- They wish to convey the im- barded by rays as he goes about wide variety of ever-elaborate so- pieces weren’t difficult to spot. that enables them to believe that tobiographical. pression that they could grow a his daily business. lutions, all abysmal failures. For a start, they were usually not nobody notices. In a bold quest for the hirsute full head of hair if they so desired This allegedly halts hair loss Then, as you do, he had a baby the same colour as the hair that I write this to prepare the way truth, I have travelled extensive- but have shaved it off because but cannot restore. It also gifts the ‘Baldness and hair treatments are no longer taboo’

Dr Maurice Collins has treated celebrities Among his many clients, Dr ing. The sides and back of the Collins can count actor James head are immune to hair loss. like Jimmy Nesbitt and Louis Walsh at his Nesbitt and X Factor judge Louis Hair loss is actually in the genet- clinic in Dublin. By Jamie McDowell Walsh, but his list of happy cus- ic make up of the hair itself, so we tomers come from all walks of take healthy hair follicles from r Maurice Collins prefers to barks on a quest to discover the life. the back and sides of the head liken his hair transplant sur- treatments to defeat baldness. Dr Collins says: “Recently I had and transplant them onto the top Dgery technique to horticul- “When I started to carry out an ambassador come to the clin- of the scalp. ture. “I like to think of what I do this work, tackling the subject of ic. His security team had to “The process is pretty lengthy. as removing the roses from the baldness was virtually go through and search The other day we transplanted back garden and planting them in taboo,” explains Dr the building before 9,000 hairs for someone. It took 10 the front garden,” he smiles. Collins. Bald truth! the operation. hours and a team of 18 nurses The 65-year-old Dublin-based “Nobody would talk Baldness can affect “The day after and surgeons.” surgeon first became interested in about it in public. up to 30% of men in the that I had a road He adds: “Each hair follicle is hair transplant surgery 17 years People would slink UK. It can start in a sweeper. a living organ, and the process is ago, and after starting his work at in and out of the clinic man's teens, but for “Once my pa- essentially an organ transplant, so the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin he for fear of being seen. most it happens in tients come in and it's quite a delicate operation. In now has his own clinic next door, “I think the break- their late 20s sit in a chair beside the two weeks after the trans- which is still affiliated with Black- through moment came re- me they're all the plant, the patient needs to be very rock. cently when the footballer same though. It's a great careful not to traumatise the hair Dr Collins features in tonight’s Wayne Rooney went public with leveller.” follicles, but after that they'll just BBC One programme, Gerry An- his hair transplant and now the So how does Dr Collins per- have normal hair, which will take derson's Losing It, in which the whole operation is as accepted as form a hair transplant? about three months to grow fully.” radio and television presenter em- people getting laser eye surgery.” “I find the whole thing fascinat- It is a very expensive operation, Star clients: Dr Maurice Collins TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 2012 BELFAST TELEGRAPH LIFE 23 Tuesday fashionSPY Kerry McKittrick checks out the style in Belfast city centre

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Monthly spend £200

celebs? e these Monthly spend Michelle £300 Miracle grow: (from left) James Nesbitt, Wayne Rooney,Jason Dale (40) Gardiner and Louis Walsh before and after their new look Janice oft (43) wearer a very hot head. I also aware that I have been gently Oldcr talked to a man who will give me thinning for years and, indeed, hair by setting a robot on me. I that is why I involved myself in wisely passed. I talked to another this documentary, put together scientist who is doing sterling by our best film-maker, the award- work with bald mice. And so it winning Alison Millar who runs goes on. television production company The most plausible hair trans- Erica Starling. Beauty salon owner, Holywood Midwife, Limavady plant man I could find was discov- I embarked on the film with Wore what? Jacket, Episode,£200, top,River Is- Wore what? Dress,Chanel, £1200, coat, Brown ered on our own doorstep. the notion that I might even have land, £25, jeans,New Look, £20, pumps,Tesco, Thomas,£160, bag, Prada copy,apresent, shoes, Dr Mau- a crack at a £10, bag, Guess,£180 River Island, £50 rice Collins to hair trans- Why? I like to be co-ordinated. I mix and match Why? I like classic style and I'm wearing this runs Hair ‘The oddest solution plant my- high street and designer because if you see a outfit because it's the last chance I'll have before Restora- self if I jacket that you can wear with anything it will winter.Iwear high street clothes but I do go for tion across thought last years if it's well made.Ihate it when girls timeless classics such as this dress.Ican't stand Blacrock in baldness I came that it wear see-through tops as I think it looks cheap it when people wear clothes that are too tight Dublin, a would be Who? I love Victoria Beckham's dresses and that Who? Audrey Hepburn's style was classic and state-of- in LA’ a step for- her collections are doing really well. What Lady will last forever.Idon't like it when people like the-art fa- was a tattooist ward (or Gaga does with her style isn't for me at all have too much flesh on show cility that backwards, has catered for the needs of Jimmy if you like) I found out that the Nesbitt (who gamely appears in procedure does indeed work in the the programme) and most of the right hands. names mentioned above. And did I have a hair trans- Monthly He has the gravitas and quiet plant? spend charm of a man who knows what You’ll have to watch the pro- £600 he’s doing. If you want to find out gramme to find out … what exactly it is that he does, watch the programme. Gerry Anderson’s Losing It, BBCOne Those who know me will be NI, tonight, 10.35pm

no longer taboo’ Monthly Monthly spend spend £100 £100 with charges starting at around ity among men. Some patients I £8 per graft, and with many hun- treat may have spent up to four dreds of grafts can be transplant- years mulling over the decision of ed during the procedure, that coming to get a hair transplant. soon adds up to a considerable “I think when a man looks in sum. the mirror he wants to see the Kelsey Sarah But Dr Collins puts it in per- image that he has of himself in Tyson (22) spective. He laughs: “If people his mind. When he matches that Holmans (19) prioritise the transplant they will image and he's looking good, it find the money. It's an invest- means he's feeling good. ment for life, and it never deval- “Recently I had Louis Walsh Rachel ues. In fact it grows in value...” back in for a post-transplant With so many celebrities on check up. He told me how much Emerson (29) the books, it's no wonder that it had changed his life — that he Dr Collins attracts people from had so much more self-esteem. I Student, Bangor Visual merchandiser, Bangor various far-flung corners of the could tell by watching him on the Wore what? Shirt, Dorothy Perkins,£20, jacket, Wore what? Jacket,Topshop,£65, top,Bou- Dentist, Moira world to his clinic, renowned as X Factor that his whole de- Topshop sale,£15, leggings,Primark, £5, boots, tique,£46, jeans,Topshop,£36, shoes,Topshop, Wore what? Jacket,Topshop,£40, cardigan, Zara, £30,T- one of the best there is. meanour had changed, and this Primark, £20, bag, £10 £75, bag, Mulberry sale,£495 shirt,Topshop,£15, jeans,Topshop,£45, shoes,Dune,£40, His philosophy is simple. Dr is a guy that already had tons of Why? I usually dress somewhere between a Why? I dress quite plainly because I go for key bag, Chloe,apresent Collins believes a man’s insecuri- confidence in the first place.” rock chick and boho chic, so I can be quite mis- signature pieces like a jacket or a bag. I like to Why? My style is quite casual. I wear bright colours in the ties rise not out of vanity, but of matched. I'm a fashion student so I like to try wear skinny jeans most of the time and I rarely summer but now we're coming into autumn I'm wearing the trauma associated with hair For more information on Hair lots of different looks wear dresses.Ican't stand the beetlejuice more black and chunky knits.Iwould say patterns aren't loss. Restoration Blackrock visit Who? I love Jameela Jamil from . She has a striped leggings though, they're so unflattering really my thing “Hair loss causes a vulnerabil- www.hair-surgery.co.uk great style and always rocks the red lips look. Who? Olivia Palermo is so classy with her style Who? I love Sienna Miller's sloppy but casual style.Idon't Katie Price on the other hand looks trashy but has atrocious dress sense like Amy Childs’ look of too much make-up and high heels