“It’s expensive”: Karl Stefanovic jokes about his hair after hair plug rumours
Karl Stefanovic, host of This Time Next Year, made a cheeky reference to his rumoured use of hair plugs during Monday night’s episode.
Stefanovic, 45, was talking with mum-of-two Paula Williams who had a breast reduction journey.
Williams declared that she wanted to burn one of her older and larger bras, and a crew member appeared on stage with a metal bucket and a lighter so she could do so.
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— This Time Next Year (@TTNY) September 30, 2019
“If you don’t mind, I’m going to step back. Don’t want to burn my hair and stuff. it’s expensive,” joked Stefanovic, to laughter from the studio audience.
The rumours were ignited by former Today colleague Richard Reid who revealed that Stefanovic used spray on hair.
Reid revealed this on his winning stint of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
“And then he went away and got hair plugs,” Reid continued. “He had one of those six-week vacations and came back with (hair plugs). And he still used the spray until it filled in.”
However, it’s not the first time Stefanovic has had his hair mentioned.
In 2017 the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Gold Logie winner “bowed to the pressure to maintain his beloved boyish looks and underwent a subtle hair transplant to hide thinning at the front and top of his head a few years ago”.
Reid has since admitted that it was a “big mistake” to tell Australia about Stefanovic’s hair plugs.
“Oh God, that was a big mistake,” Reid groaned when the topic was brought up on The Kyle and Jackie Show.
“Apparently, people have thought it but no one has said it! And hey, he rocked a comb-over like nobody’s business, with a little bit of spray in his hair … dark spray.”
He added: “The thing is with Karlos, now that you look back on it, is that he’s the first person to laugh at himself. So, I guess he wasn’t planning on laughing at that, but he’ll cry all the way to the bank, won’t he?”