It’s hard to believe that Dame Arlene Phillips has turned 80.
Once dubbed the ‘Queen of Mean’ for her plain-speaking, no-nonsense comments when a judge on BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing, Arlene has survived COVID, a stint in the freezing Welsh countryside on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! and, most recently, the loss of her good friend Len Goodman.
But choreographer of the seat in 2004. So, what’s her secret – is it the surgeon’s knife or a special diet and vitamin regime that gives her that wonderful glow?
