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Ageing Bucks Fizz reunite ahead of bizarre plastic surgery reality show
Updated 19:51pm on 4 Sep 2008
Eurovision song contest winners Bucks Fizz have reunited at the birthday celebration for cable channel Living TV.
Fittingly, as the group are set to film new reality show for which they will go under the knife and stage a comeback concert.
Three original members Cheryl Baker, 54, and Jay Aston, 47, Mike Nolan, 54, posed with Shelly Preston, who later took Aston's place in the popular group.
But clearly, the years have not been kind to everyone.
Bucks Fizz, from left Shelley Preston, Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and Jay Aston, at Living TV's 15th birthday party in Covent Garden last night
Leggy blondes Jay and Shelly showed off their toned bodies in mini dresses and high heels.
Cheryl, who has fought a public battle with her weight looked rather matronly in head to toe black.
And Mike Nolan's shiny shirt hid what looked like a substantial mid-life paunch, but despite his greying hair he has retained his boyish looks.
He hit the headlines in 1984 when the group's tour bus crashed, leaving him in a coma.
Back in the 80s: Jay Aston, Bobby Gee, Mike Nolan, and Cheryl Baker
Hopefully the bandmates will benefit from the group's latest venture.
In 'Pop Goes The Band', they, along with other long-forgotten groups, including Bananarama, have reformed for a TV special in which they'll all have plastic surgery.
The show promises they will be 'restored to their former glory through strenuous fitness regimes, painful cosmetic and in some cases, major plastic surgery'.
The original four - Mike Nolan, Cheryl Baker, Bobby Gee and Jay Aston - won the 1981 Eurovision competition with Making Your Mind Up.
Cheese: The group have been reunited for a new show in which they will have plastic surgery to look like their former youthful selves
The single also made No1 and was followed by a string of hits but the group split up acrimoniously in 1985.
A source close to the group said: 'They won't let personal differences get involved this time.'
Visage, soul diva Chaka Khan and teen bands 911 and Cleopatra will also feature in the Living TV series.
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'But clearly, the years have not been kind to everyone.'
The outfits some of them are wearing aren't helping, especially the one who looks like she's dressed up for a night on a street corner somewhere near Soho.
- Kitty, London, 04/09/2008 16:01
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Great photo,- but I bet bobby gee is peed off about being called mike nolan,or vice versa.
- Jacob, Canterbury, 04/09/2008 15:44
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That Jay Aston still looks like she could teach me a thing or two.
- Keith, King's Cross, 04/09/2008 15:14
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