JIMMY Carr has shown off the results of a secret hair transplant after being left looking like a “snooker playing vampire”. The 47-year-old comic will debut his new look on tomorrow night’s episode of Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer. The star shocked Peter and co-host Maya Jama during filming after ditching his trademark black quiff, […]
JIMMY Carr has shown off the results of a secret hair transplant after being left looking like a “snooker playing vampire”.
The 47-year-old comic will debut his new look on tomorrow night’s episode of Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer.
The star shocked Peter and co-host Maya Jama during filming after ditching his trademark black quiff, with Maya commenting: “It’s a very different look for you.”
Opening up about the operation, Jimmy explained: “I tell you what I did, I went and had a hair transplant.
“I kinda had a look of… Like a snooker playing vampire.”
Maya joked: “I always called you a vampire”, with Peter adding: “I said snooker player, she said vampire funnily enough.”
Jimmy laughed: “Well you’re both right.
“So what happened was my hair was socially distancing from my forehead and I’d had enough of it.”
Going into more detail about the procedure, the star – who previously confessed to having Botox – continued: “I genuinely did. I shaved my head and what they do is take hairs from the back of your head and they put them on the front.
“Basically I had enough hair, it was just in the wrong place. It was a bit of redistribution.”
Hair transplants are an intricate and expensive procedure which gives people a thicker hairline.
Jimmy follows in the footsteps of footballer Wayne Rooney, director Guy Ritchie, Strictly pro Anton du Beke and Cold Feet actor James Nesbitt, who’ve all had it done.
The procedure is a favourite among male celebrities who say their careers are aided by maintaining a fuller head of hair.
It can cost around £20,000 to have a transplant at a top clinic, but that’s not a problem for Jimmy, who is estimated to be worth £12million as a result of his TV presenting and sell-out stand-up tours.
Episode four of Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer airs tomorrow [Saturday 27th June] at 9:25pm on BBC One
