The Copacabana legend has spent years batting away surgery rumours – but in a candid new interview, the singer admits he’s gone under the knife
Barry Manilow has come clean about the secret behind his remarkably smooth complexion – admitting that he’s gone under the knife. Speaking for the first time about having cosmetic surgery, the Copacabana legend, 82, let slip this week that he’s had a little help staying looking sharp.
“I look fantastic, but I’m a hundred years old, right?” Barry said in a new interview. “I don’t know how that happened, by the way – I don’t get Botox or anything.”
But when pushed on whether he’d really ‘had no work done’ at all, the Mandy singer changed his tune. “No!” he insisted, before confessing: “I must say: There was one time when we lived in L.A. that I did do a facelift. But after that it’s just been a little here, a little there.”
The star, who spent years living in Los Angeles before moving to Palm Springs in the late 1990s, was candid about his nips and tucks. “‘Work’ is like a facelift, and I only had one of those,’ he explained. ‘The rest of it – I see something falling down, sure, I’ll do that,” he said. “I’m as vain as anybody else.”
The frank admission in his interview with the LA Times comes during a difficult chapter for the showman.
Last December, Barry revealed he’d been diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer after doctors spotted a cancerous spot on his left lung following a long bout of bronchitis. He underwent surgery to have it removed.
Nearly six months on, the star is still off the road as he fights to get his voice back – and he didn’t sugarcoat how tough it’s been.
“Agony,” he said of his time offstage. “Make an album, go on the road, come back, make an album, go on the road — that’s what my life’s been for years. And I like it.”
He added: “I get winded just walking down the hallway. I turn on my old records and sing along, and three songs in I’m like [pants].”
Despite the health scare, Barry remains in good spirits. Reflecting on his looks when he was younger, he recalled a sweet compliment from a pal’s mum. “One of my old friends, his mother said, ‘I always knew he was talented, but when did he get so handsome?'”
Barry, who married his manager and partner Garry Kief, 77, in 2014 and came out as gay in 2017, has a new album, What a Time, due out on June 5. He’s hoping to return to the stage in Las Vegas in July – though he admits he’s not sure the shows will go ahead.
“I’m not ready to croak,” he said.
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