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Hot in Cleveland's Betty White feels no need for plastic surgery
by Anooska Tucker-Evans From: The Sunday Mail (Qld) August 08, 2010 12:00AM
Betty White's new show Hot in Cleveland may be all about vanity and looking good, but the 88-year-old isn't about to jump on the beauty bandwagon.
Unlike fellow Hollywood stars Raquel Welch and Joan Rivers, the former Golden Girl said she had never gone under the knife and couldn't be bothered with plastic surgery.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it, I say," the actor laughed.
"It's something I learned at my mother's knee, so the girls in make-up just have to put up with the wrinkles and the puffy eyes."
White said she relied on acting and performing to keep her young.
This year alone, the Emmy Award-winner became the oldest person to guest-host US variety show Saturday Night Live, recorded one of the most popular Super Bowl ads of 2010 and filmed the movie You Again with Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver, due for release in September. "Everyone says, 'Oh, it's so nice to see you back', but I never really went away," she said. "I've been working 63 years in this business."
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And the actor says she's not about to stop.
"I don't know what else I'd do (if I wasn't acting)," she said. "I'll keep doing this until I'm in my grave."
White currently films Hot in Cleveland at least three days a week and spends the rest of her time shooting guest spots on other comedies, as well as working on a re-release of one of her books.
"I'm only rostered on for three days (on Hot In Cleveland), but sometimes I come in for an extra day because it's so much fun," she says.
"The girls are a delight to work with on both sides of the camera and I love doing a show in front of a live audience – it's just a totally pleasant experience." However, the star was not actually supposed to appear in the show at all. She agreed to do the pilot because of her other acting commitments but the team twisted her arm.
"They were so nice I was ashamed to turn them down," she said.
Hot in Cleveland's Betty White feels no need for plastic surgery
by Anooska Tucker-Evans From: The Sunday Mail (Qld) August 08, 2010 12:00AM
Betty White's new show Hot in Cleveland may be all about vanity and looking good, but the 88-year-old isn't about to jump on the beauty bandwagon.
Unlike fellow Hollywood stars Raquel Welch and Joan Rivers, the former Golden Girl said she had never gone under the knife and couldn't be bothered with plastic surgery.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it, I say," the actor laughed.
"It's something I learned at my mother's knee, so the girls in make-up just have to put up with the wrinkles and the puffy eyes."
White said she relied on acting and performing to keep her young.
This year alone, the Emmy Award-winner became the oldest person to guest-host US variety show Saturday Night Live, recorded one of the most popular Super Bowl ads of 2010 and filmed the movie You Again with Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver, due for release in September. "Everyone says, 'Oh, it's so nice to see you back', but I never really went away," she said. "I've been working 63 years in this business."
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And the actor says she's not about to stop.
"I don't know what else I'd do (if I wasn't acting)," she said. "I'll keep doing this until I'm in my grave."
White currently films Hot in Cleveland at least three days a week and spends the rest of her time shooting guest spots on other comedies, as well as working on a re-release of one of her books.
"I'm only rostered on for three days (on Hot In Cleveland), but sometimes I come in for an extra day because it's so much fun," she says.
"The girls are a delight to work with on both sides of the camera and I love doing a show in front of a live audience – it's just a totally pleasant experience." However, the star was not actually supposed to appear in the show at all. She agreed to do the pilot because of her other acting commitments but the team twisted her arm.
"They were so nice I was ashamed to turn them down," she said.