I can understand the pressure on models / actors / singers to do this to themselves as they vainly attempt to cling on to their youth and their beauty because that’s 99% of their appeal. But Simon was never a noted looker was he? Although I’d be willing to place a bet that he’s clung on to plenty of youth in his time. His strength lay more in the fact that he was a square headed dead eyed soul vampire who was exceedingly happy to milk the Great British public's insatiable appetite for karaoke, melisma and bland cunts and their ball achingly tedious emotional journeys. For all his faults, you wouldn’t get Louis Walsh fucking his face up like this. In fact, the only face fucking Louis Walsh has been party to that we know of unequivocally is Ronan Keatings.
Also, it says something about the sheer fucking vacuity and artifice of vapid, lowest common denominator show business that the only moderately human looking one in that line up of polished turds above is the dipsomaniac. Not that that’ll help him when the great day comes.
