After more than 25 years in broadcasting Gaby Roslin is one of the most familiar faces on television.
And she’s told The Sunday Post it’s a face she is proud is just as nature intended.
“It’s quite extraordinary how times have changed that it’s news when someone like myself says they HAVEN’T had Botox,” says 49-year-old Gaby.
“I made a promise to a friend who had a brain tumour and was saying what she’d give to grow old.
“She died at 40. Just what are people trying to hide?
“I know for a fact that there are people I’m not going to name names who say they don’t do it and then give me the number of the person they use!
“I just wonder why some actors and actresses do it. They’re supposed to be able to show expression and some of them look shocking.”
Gaby’s joining Chris Hollins and Matt Allwright on the latest series of BBC One’s hit show The Food Inspectors.
Her role is looking at what’s actually in our food.
“Despite the fact that I’ve been studying food and nutrition for 18 years I was still surprised. Some of the stuff about ice cream and bacon really took me aback.”
Gaby’s interest in diet and health was fired for the most personal of reasons.
“I’ve seen the suffering. My dad was diagnosed with bowel cancer 18-and-a-half years ago,” she confides. “He survived but my mum got lung cancer and died 17-and-a-half years ago.
“It made me want to study health and nutrition and people are now ringing me up and telling me they realise things I told them years back were right after all.
“There are things you shouldn’t be having a lot of but a little of what you fancy is different.”
Gaby is bubbly, chatty and great company, but she confesses that the loss of her mum still hurts. She also says her mum would have loved to have seen Gaby’s kids Libbi-Jack and Amelie.
“She was only 62,” says Gaby quietly. “I was 32 and she died before I ever had kids. She never met the girls and that always upsets me. We still talk about her although neither of them knew her.
“She’d have been a very good granny.”
Gaby’s 50th birthday in July isn’t something she’s worrying about or hiding as she’s always been open about her age. But she says a big party is out of the question, having “spent all the money” on her wedding to husband David last year.
“We’ve been together for nine years, he’s a great step-dad, a great man and he makes me laugh,” she adds.
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