Former Dollar singers David Van Day and Thereza Bazar are currently starring in Living’s new reality TV show, ‘Pop Goes The Band.’

The pair are trying to recreate their ‘heyday’ in the 1980s when they scored a handful of top ten hits, but before they can do they they obviously have to look the part. Thereza decided to work out with a personal trainer and opted for a touch of botox to reinvigorate her ageing body. Van Day, ever the show man, took things about ten steps further and volunteered for quite a drastic facelift.

I have always sat on the wall when it comes to plastic surgery. I’ve always erred on the never say never side, assumed that when I am 45/50 it may be something I seriously consider. Not any more! The sight of David Van Day with blood seeping out of his eye bags, his face swollen to twice its normal size and his head bandaged like a mummy was enough to mentally scar me for life.

David admits that he looked so scary, he banned his own children from seeing him for eight weeks after the surgery. He said: “My head was the size of a TV and I don’t want them to see what it was like.”

Facelifts, tummy tucks, cosmetic surgery as a whole is often portrayed as the easy option, the quick fix. I now doubt that’s the case. David was in agony after the surgery, he admitted in a recent TV interview that if he realised how painful the procedure would be and how long the side effects would last for, he’s not sure that he would have gone through with it. I think I can say with a large degree of certainty that when the time comes and my face is starting to sag so much that you can’t see my neck anymore, I will just live with the fact that I am old, maybe even wear a large scarf as disguise. I will not be putting myself through any form of invasive cosmetic surgery. I’m just way too squeamish!