'My only 副／悪徳行為 was 広大な／多数の／重要な girlfriends 支援する in the Sixties': Under the microscope with Vidal Sasson

By Beatrice Aidin
Updated: 07:55 BST, 24 May 2011

The 伝説の hairdresser, 83, on running on adrenaline, always 存在 thin and why these days he finds a good 調書をとる／予約する more 利益／興味ing than sex

'In the Sixties it was the thing that everyone had on their mind': Vidal Sassoon on sex

WHAT’S YOUR? BIGGEST VICE?

My only 副／悪徳行為 was 広大な／多数の／重要な girlfriends 支援する in the Sixties. When your own adrenaline is working so 井戸／弁護士席, why take anything illicit? I never smoked, but after a couple of glasses of red ワイン at dinner, I’m in a very jolly mood.

EVER DIETED?

No, I’ve always been skinny and have never 重さを計るd more than 11st 4lb (I’m 5ft 8in). 率直に, it’s a hard 職業 to keep the 負わせる on. If I go to a health farm, it is for a 徹底的な 洗浄するing with colonics.

GET YOUR FIVE A DAY?

Yes, I love vegetables and I make sure I have one good salad a day. I love bangers and mash, which is very English of me, but I have them infrequently because they aren’t too healthy.

WHAT’S YOUR EXERCISE ROUTINE?

When I was 70 I had a quadruple heart bypass after a 決まりきった仕事 life 保険 実験（する） 設立する a blockage. I had to get fit again, and I did it by swimming a mile four times a week. Swimming, for me, is a wonderful 救済 from chatter and noise. I also did Pilates for 25 years.

POP ANY PILLS?

Oh God, yes! I have a home in Los Angeles where I see a man who gives you all the ビタミンs and herbs you could ever need, from 肝臓 cleansers to ビタミン D to garlic.

Vidal cutting the hair of another icon from the British fashion scene in the 1960s, designer Mary Quant

HAD ANYTHING REMOVED?

My 虫垂 in my teens, and my tonsils in the Sixties ― they seemed to take everyone’s out 支援する then.

HOW WELL DO YOU? COPE WITH PAIN?

I got used to 恐れる growing up in an orphanage, after my father left my mother when I was three and she could no longer afford to support us. It made me good with 苦痛. I once fell asleep having a root canal. The dentist said: ‘That’s a first.’

WOULD YOU HAVE PLASTIC SURGERY?

Of course! I had a neck 解除する because at a 確かな age men get a turkey neck and I couldn’t 耐える to look at it in the mirror. I’d advise anyone to do it; no shame at all.

'Swimming (left) is a wonderful 救済 from chatter and noise... I had a neck 解除する because at a 確かな age men get a turkey neck (権利),' said Vidal

WORST ILLNESS?

I had 肺炎 last year and was in hospital for more than a month, （機の）カム out, and then went 支援する for ten days. I had terrible congestion in the 肺s. I couldn’t watch Chelsea play because the hospital didn’t have 衛星 TV.

IS SEX IMPORTANT?

In the Sixties it was the thing that everyone had on their mind. But at 83, I find a good 調書をとる／予約する more 利益／興味ing.

EVER BEEN DEPRESSED?

No ― I am lucky not to get depressed. Even when my daughter Catya died (she overdosed on 麻薬s at a party in 2001, 老年の 33) I didn’t let myself get depressed. To 打ち勝つ it I did what I always did: I went to work.

?Vidal Sassoon: The Movie is? in cinemas now.

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