Stephanie Arnott says she’s been known to make grown men weep.
Because, as she explains,
that’s just what happens ‘when you are 58 with the face and figure of a
35-year-old.’
The grandmother puts her
youthful looks down to ‘luck and good genes’. She’s also clearly blessed
with incredible self-confidence.
She may just be our new
favourite person.
The diva gran, who you may
have spotted on Couples Come Dine With Me with her 66-year-old husband Ian
earlier this year, also told MailOnline: ‘People think I’m a superstar and
guess my age at 35. I always look like I’ve just walked off a movie set.
‘People are always
surprised to see someone as glamorous as me walking around,’ she adds.
Stephanie says men are always approaching her. Once, when she had
scaffolding outside her flat, she says one man climbed up and left her a note
asking her to dinner.
She’s even caused car
crashes because of her looks, apparently.
‘Until recently (when I’ve
lost my looks slightly) I used to cause near-accidents on the streets. People
would get distracted by me and have to slam their brakes on,’ she says.
‘I remember walking by a
crossroad with a friend once. The man at the wheel took a double take at me and
there was a very near crash.’
And she’s reduced grown men to tears. ‘I’ve also had men
getting emotional on me. I can be talking to someone and then I’ll notice they
are getting soppy and tearful – and trying to hold back tears,’ she explains.
‘I think it’s because they
fall in love at first sight – but obviously they are not going to admit that,’
she muses.
The mum-of-one signed up for work as a mature model last year, and
confesses she did have Botox for the first time before her appearance on Come
Dine With Me. She sounds a little disappointed that the other contestants
guessed her real age on the show.
‘People find it hard to
believe my age, although when the other contestants on the show were asked to
guess they did get it right – “Fifty plus VAT” as one of the contestants put
it,’ she says, adding: ‘But I think they had been prepped by producers –
and I have a mature voice, which is also a giveaway.’
Don’t worry, though, it hasn’t dented her confidence. She
concludes: ‘I love getting attention and get bought drinks when I’m out. People
often mistake Ian for my minder and chauffeur. It’s probably because I have
film-star looks and I’m also well-spoken and glamorous.
‘Every day of my life I
look elegant; it doesn’t matter what I am doing whether I am pruning roses,
gardening, housework even cleaning our cars I would hate to look scruffy!’
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