According to reports 73-year-old Lionel Richie is giving the 411 on how he has been able to maintain his “same youthful appearance for many years now”.
According to an exclusive with the Daily Mail Lionel insists you will never catch him going under the knife in an attempt to preserve his looks.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, the father-of-three revealed why he won’t ever go down the same surgical route as many of his Hollywood contemporaries, explaining that he would hate not being able to return to his natural appearance after getting plastic surgery.
‘[Plastic surgery] locks you in for that year [while you recover] – and after that you can’t go naturally, you’re staying right there… You try and go back to reset, and you can’t,’ he said, adding: ‘[And] that s*** goes wrong!’
And there’s one other very important reason why the All Night Long singer wants to avoid undergoing an aesthetic procedure: ‘God might not recognize me, so I want to make sure he knows me.’
Instead of surgery, Lionel – who has been in a relationship with Swiss-Caribbean model Lisa Parigi for more than a decade – said he prefers to focus on a much more natural approach to anti-aging, combining traditional methods like plenty of sleep and lots of water with another rather more risque activity: sex.
‘Water, sleep, and sweat, not too much red meat,’ he said when asked how he takes care of himself at the eighth annual Hollywood Beauty Awards. ‘I know it’s real boring. [Sex] will work also and it’s good for your heart.’
Lionel’s seemingly ageless appearance became the source of much interest once again this past weekend after he performed alongside the likes of Katy Perry and British boyband Take That at a Sunday night concert held to celebrate the coronation of King Charles.
The performance sparked a slew of debate online after critics spoke out to blast what they viewed as a ‘ropey’ and ‘awful’ performance at Windsor Castle.
However social media users also took notice of his on-stage appearance for a very different reason, calling attention to how young Lionel still looks after more than five decades in the spotlight.
‘How is Lionel 73, he looks so young?’ one person questioned on Twitter, while another joked: ‘He’s been dancing on the ceiling since the 80s gravity in reverse.’
Another user suggested: ‘A lot of surgery.’
Lionel Richie looks more fake than the clay face the blind woman was sculpting in his Hello video!! #gmb #bbcnews #Coronation #CoronationDay #eveofthecoronation #KingCharlesCoronation pic.twitter.com/1kSJQ3X9UA
— Tom ???️??? (@thomasoxley) May 5, 2023
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Lionel Richie. What on earth happened to you?
Your face, your voice….
?#CoronationConcert pic.twitter.com/tPlruOOZ1F— Yvonne de Baay, (@yvonnedebaay) May 7, 2023
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Lionel Richie has really messed up his face…..why do these people do that to themselves? They never look any younger they just look odd #CoronationConcert
— ???✨Pickle✨??? (@FlopsyPickle) May 7, 2023
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They need to get a shift on. Lionel Richie’s face is melting from the heat coming off of Bunter Blackford. pic.twitter.com/eVn3d2xIIL
— Tony Cuomo-Welsh Bobsleigh Team 2007 runners up (@tony_como) May 6, 2023
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Has Lionel Richie had an extension added to his face? #CoronationConcert
— Anthony Dent (@_toosb) May 7, 2023
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WTAF was his plastic surgeon doing ? Training or experimenting with new stuff ? . I would hope Lionel Richie didnt pay for that new face . pic.twitter.com/Igd4Lf01m8
— Rab F (@RabF66) May 7, 2023
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Lionel Richie is on the Coronation concert and it's painful to listen to and what's he done to his face???
— Andy Hill (@Andy_Hill69) May 7, 2023
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What the feck has old Lionel Richie done to his face?!! ? https://t.co/FKHNkrFxfp
— JuliaDoe (@Juliadoe51) May 8, 2023
Safe to say, the internet is not picking up what Lionel is putting down.
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