"Every person, ?M=A no Temoignages matter what sex, would like to feel they are ?M=A a Temoignages little younger Temoignages than ?M=A they really are. That's ?M=A why I paid a lot of money to have it done." £3,450 to be precise. The fast cars and bespoke blazers, the gadgets and gimmicks, come with the territory. But as for indulging one's facial appearance - that is more Beverly Hills than Walton-on-Thames, surely? Temoignages Is James not a jot embarrassed?"Embarrassed? No, not at all I feel delighted. The face-lift ?M=A was very quick."James has Temoignages perfected the spivvy English gent and "happy bachelor" image.

Male vanity is officially in.Since James was "very fit", according to the hospital, and was not seeking surgery as a short-term cure to long-term unhappiness, the surgeons agreed to go ahead."I was on the slab and I said to the surgeon, now a friend of mine, and the anaesthetist, `Good morning, gentlemen I hope you're both fit.' `Oh yes,' they said `Carry on then,' I said Then they stuck in the needle and that was it. Older men may take Reader's Digest rather than Esquire but there is a new climate in which men feel comfortable spending time and money on their appearance And now James. The average age for a man to have a face-lift is 45 and male octogenarians are a rarity, not least because they have a one-year life expectancy and slim chances of bouncing back after a general anaesthetic.Taking an interest in their looks like never before, men of all ages now want to be beautiful, inside and out. Witness the magazines Men's Health and XL and the fact that sales of GQ and Esquire, Meccas for male grooming, are bigger than ever. Men represent just 14 to 18 per cent of surgeries and most of those (500 a year) are nose jobs, while 40 to 50 face-lifts are performed each year.

And he had never considered plastic surgery before then? "Never."At the world's biggest hospital devoted exclusively to plastic surgery, 4,300 "procedures" are performed each year. She told me where and I said, `Well, I've nothing to lose, perhaps I'll have a go at that myself'."One week later James checked into the National Hospital for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in Worcestershire. I don't know what brought the subject up but she said, `My friend had cosmetic surgery'. No, it is a simple face-lift performed five months ago that has turned James Harrington into the Peter Pan of Walton-on-Thames."I have a chiropodist who comes here once every five weeks. His eyes, however, hide behind dark glasses.The secret to his youthful complexion? Certainly not the open heart surgery he had five years ago, nor the seven-day weeks he has worked for the past 40 years, nor the din of machines which clink and whirr on the shop floor beneath his small flat seven days a week.