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AUGUST 21 • 2011 The Irish Mail on Sunday
ving freezing the faces of Irish celebrities she has to pretend not to know
DEMAND:
Danielle
Meagher
says her
‘recessionproof’
business is
up 23%
I’m so busy with
back to school
Botox... The
mammies
are getting
desperate
for a jab
on footballer Ashley Cole had the procedure done for free in exchange for a
testimonial on the DermaFACE website. British model Sophie Anderton,
34, one-time cocaine addict and prostitute, is another celebrity client who
waived anonymity for free Botox.
‘She’s gorgeous but I don’t get
remotely
star-struck,’
Danielle
shrugs. ‘If you’re very good at what
you do, you get a celebrity following.
If I could get away with charging
them more, I would because they are
SWORN OFF: Rachel Weisz, left,
and Kate Winslet say Botox leaves
women’s faces expressionless
k 28. I was delighted, I gave them
ug. I’m really into anti-ageing.’
ut is ageing really so bad that we
ve to inject poison into our faces?
Botox is a toxin – it’s not toxic,’
unters Danielle. ‘It’s not high risk,
ke to sleep at night. We all know
th a bad reputation – I don’t mind
ying Advanced Cosmetic Surgery.’
e adds of the company that closed
2008 after one death and a mounn of litigation.
What I do is non-surgical – you
n’t really mess it up if you tried.’
ollette McBarron’s loose lips?
umped by Danielle! The former
my lieutenant who kissed and told
‘I’d never date an Irish
guy. They drink too much
and don’t take care’
more high maintenance and your
medical indemnity goes up the more
you treat them,’ she complains.
‘I would nearly rather the lady coming up from the potato farm in Kerry
than certain people you could meet.
Loads of farmers’ wives come and
they are gorgeous and glam.’
Danielle won’t say much about her
own background. She has lots of relations in Cork – where she will shortly
open a clinic – and Michael Collins
was her great granduncle.
‘I think there are a couple of his
uniforms knocking around. I never
really thought about it hugely. I don’t
know – would he have gone for mantox?’ she wonders aloud. ‘Probably not – he was pretty
good-looking.’
Her granny Dolores is her
‘biggest fan’ but has cautioned
Danielle against talking about
the family and dating inappropriate men.
‘I’ve been caught by photographers with the odd boy. Last
year, I got caught with – it was
ridiculous – Dane Bowers,’ she
says, of the British singer and
reality TV star.
‘Nothing went on. He’s
a C-list celebrity and I
can tell you that “C”
stands for Chavtastic. I
have nothing in common with him. He likes
a drink and I might
drink three times a
year.
‘I was handing him
the keys of the car
and it looked like we
were holding hands.
I was scarlet to be
linked to that!’
What was she
doing with him,
so? ‘I think we
were trying to see
QUID PRO QUO:
Sophie Anderton
gave up anonymity
for free treatment
if he’d do a bit of mantox and we’d
video it for Xposé or something.
He didn’t in the end,’ she says,
evasively.
‘Then I was good pals with
Leigh Arnold and I know Marcus Sweeney for two, three
years. We were out one night
and someone took a photograph
and Granny was like, “For God’s
sake!” I was killed for that.’
Danielle is single. She says: ‘I
would never consider dating
an Irish guy, ever.
They drink too
much and they
don’t take care
of themselves.’
Danielle, on the
other hand, is
‘too ambitious to
have hangovers’.
She works out
every
morning
and puts ‘pressure’ on herself to
look good.
‘My ideal guy
would be a sports
guy, an athlete
because they don’t
drink and they’re
disciplined. They’re
also quite alpha and
ambitious, like me.
Most of them can cook
as well which is beneficial because I’m brutal
in the kitchen,’ she adds.
VERDICT: Mickey Rourke, top,
Dannii Minogue, above, and Anne
Robinson were branded Botox
disasters on Channel 4
Danielle dated French rugby international Fulgence Ouedraogo, known
as Fufu, after meeting him in Krystle
following an Ireland-France game.
‘When an Irish guy asks me out, I
crank up the high maintenance to the
max just to put them off. I’d say I’ll
end up with a French guy or a Welsh
guy or a Portuguese,’ she muses.
A ‘nerd’ in school – she got 575
points in her Leaving – Danielle has
nonetheless always longed for the
frothier world of TV presenting.
‘I was down to the last 10 to present
Off The Rails 10 years ago,’ she
claims. ‘I never told this to anyone
before but someone in RTÉ told me I
had a face for radio. I was 22. I was
gutted; completely devastated.’
It hasn’t deterred her – though it
may help explain all that Botox – and
last year Danielle was an expert presenter on Channel 4’s 50 Plastic Surgery Shockers. Anne Robinson, Dannii
Minogue and Mickey Rourke were
among the unfortunate roll call.
The pilot TV shows she did in Britain last year were even more drastic.
‘One was called Under 18 And Under
The Knife. I was actually presenting
that,’ she adds, proudly, but it sounds
ethically – even legally – dubious.
‘I’d love to do more presenting and
I’m going to aggressively go down
that route next because there isn’t
much competition,’ she shrugs. ‘The
other Botox doctors are 50 and
fecked-looking, not young and glam.’
Young and glam – and Botoxed.