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10 Years Younger in 10 Days review – the Botoxed makeover show is back ... and it's uglier than ever

The series where ‘dowdy’ participants are remedied with fillers and expensive clothes returns to our screens. But, a decade on, the cracks are showing

It is 11 years since the show formerly known simply as 10 Years Younger last aired. Back then it was on Channel 4 and briefly hosted by Myleene Klass, but for ever associated with her predecessor, the specs-ellent Nicky Hambleton-Jones. These were the days of Trinny and Susannah’s boob squeezes and “Dr” Gillian McKeith’s miracle mung beans, when looking good meant submitting to the bullying instruction of a questionably qualified TV presenter. Whether audiences were browbeaten or merely bored, makeover shows fell out of favour until Queer Eye’s surprisingly sensitive reboot on Netflix. Now BBC One is launching its first one for 15 years – You Are What You Wear, with Rylan Clark-Neal – and 10 Years Younger is back, too, this time on Channel 5 and under a new guise as 10 Years Younger in 10 Days. But has the scruffy old bag let herself go?

If that sounds harsh, remember, we are being invited to pass exactly such judgments on the two women in the first new episode. Gail is a farmer from Northumberland and Sarah is a dog-walker from somewhere down south, but according to the new presenter, Cherry Healey, they share one defining quality: “People who care more about animals than they do themselves.”

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