know when to walk away…know when to run. How prophetic are these words after I just viewed some startling images of The Gambler himself, Mr. Kenny Rogers. Kenny! You should have RUN from your butcher surgeon!!
Now it could be that I’m posting old news, in fact, I’m sure of it. I am trying to do my part to educate people of the dangers of bad plastic surgery. Normally, I don’t pay any mind to celebs and living without television makes this infinitely easier. Despite my Amish tendencies, even I can get sucked into the ‘celebrity plastic surgery gone horribly awry’ vortex. I don’t usually make a habit of mocking others, but I just can’t resist this one.
Here’s Kenny in the “Gambler” glory days. He looks pretty debonair, white hair at the temples, steely glare, denim shirt that says “I’m just a regular guy”, projecting the rugged cowboy look.
And here’s Kenny today…a waxy parody of himself. Kenny, how do you sleep at night if your eyes won’t close? Someone get this man a skin graft STAT! And lose the smarmy goatee and bring back the grandfatherly beard Kenny, if only to distract me from your squinty eyes and chipmunk cheek implants.
Now let’s put these images side-by-side and really take a good long look…
Kenny, you took a serious gamble, and LOST, my friend.
wait.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait.
wait.
You mean to tell me that when you get older, your cheeks don’t rise and firm up?
Next you’re going to tell me that my parents are the tooth fairy.
Way sexy before. After… not so much.
@bouncy: i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but ’tis true…wrinkles and fine lines await you, my pretty.
@jen: lol…i never thought of kenny as a sexy guy, but i guess he was.
back in ‘83 when he was popular in my neighborhood, i preferred the guys from the movie ‘the outsiders.’ the beard just didn’t do it for me when i was 9.
and being from ‘jersey, we’re always suspicious of the ‘country and western’ type of characters…my aunt was a huge fan of ‘the oakridge boys’ (c&w band) and we never really forgave her for that…in jersey you listen to ole’ blue eyes or anyone else featured on mob hits. lol.
I saw those pictures too and you are SO right.
“Kenny, you took a serious gamble, and LOST, my friend.”
Funniest…line…EVER.
C’mon CWG, your family can’t be that uptight.
Although I grew up listening to the local DJ playing “Fridays with Frank” and “Saturday with Sinatra” (like he really needed two shows), we were also allowed to listen to Bon Jovi (who is sexier now than he was when he had 80s hair) and Bruce Springstein.
I always loved that song “The Gambler”, and I think my favorite version of it was when Kenny Rogers guest-starred on The Muppet Show and the sketch featured an ‘old gambler’ muppet who looked eerily like Kenny does these days…
OMG — youtube rocks…here’s a link!
@jimsmuse: STOP IT! the gambler DIED?! i couldn’t stand to watch kenny singing with muppets, but husbandito forced to me sit through it–horrors! although i will admit to clapping along during the “breakdown” at the end–when there was no music–just the drum beat.
The whole point of the song (to get ridiculously philosophical about muppets and Kenny Rogers for a moment) is that the gambler had lived well, passed on his experience, and aimed to die well, too.
In other words, he “knew when to fold ‘em”.
Sorry to have upset you, but after posting that picture (twice!) of the current Kenny Rogers, I figured you could handle it!
Islands in the Stream. Nuff said.
*very quietly* I don’t think he looks that bad…
Well, whaddya know? The new WordPress feature ‘possibly related posts’ brought me here and may I say that I agree with you 100%? Kenny Rogers is a poster child for why you should just age naturally!!! I mean, think of Robert Redford. His glorious face has become a wrinkly mess. But at least it still *looks* like RR! He is still handsome, just not in a pretty boy way any more, now it is more rugged. And that is how it is supposed to look in your 70s!!
You have to wonder if his younger kids from his current marriage have asked upon seeing older pictures of him “Daddy, you have a brother? Why haven’t we met him?!” Or, “Daddy, is that YOU? What happened to your face? That wont happen to us when we get old will it? Aiiiiieeeee!”