There have been a lot of tabloid stories, this past couple of months, about how Jimmy has changed his face again, in 2025 (he hasn’t). The Daily Mail in particular likes to run this story every few weeks (don’t click on it, though – it will only encourage them!!) and their readers (mostly) are not Carr fans and the articles get 100s and 100s of negative comments.

Does “be kind” not apply to men in the public eye?

This post, though, is about how AWFUL reporting is now. The inaccuracies are shocking and it then makes you doubt everything else that is written by the MSM.

We’ll start with the Daily Mail on Jan 16^th.

• They say “following his hair transplant in 2022”
  • Fact Check: his transplant was done during lockdown and was debuted on Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer in June 2020
• There is a picture with Land Rover logos behind him that is captioned “pictured in 2022”
  • Fact Check: This is clearly BEFORE his hair transplant – it’s his old “vampire snooker player” hairline. This Jaguar event was actually in 2017.

The article lead photo has him looking unshaven with a caption that he “looks worlds away from his old self”. I would say he looks exactly the same as in all the heckle amnesty videos that he’s been posting because, despite them talking about his “drastically altered appearance”, he’s not had anything major done in a couple of years (apart from Botox). This is just a really, really bad pap shot and what they haven’t added is that he’d done 2 gigs in Dartford that night – so the shots were after midnight, he was probably tired and the flash has made him look pale and waxy.

It’s common sense that, when someone is doing almost 300 gigs a year, plus TV, that someone would have noticed if he’d taken time out to have anything major done.

They also use a 2004 image to show how much work he’s had done…like we’ve not all aged in the 21 years since then.

The Mirror than picked up the same story with “possibly had more work done”

• Hair transplant mentioned as 2022
  • Fact Check: Have they been doing a copy/paste from the mail? As above – transplant in 2020. Oddly, further down the article, the “journalist” actually says that he unveiled his look on Save Our Summer in 2020…do they ever read back what they write?

Ladbible picked up the same “facial improvements” story but at least theirs had no errors (kudos). Lose a point for using a 2004 photo though.

The Express published theirs on Jan 20^th and went with the “debuts new look” rubbish. They referenced the Daily Mail article and regurgitated the “2022 hair transplant” – while following with the “debuted his new look in 2020”. Have a cookie for not using a 2004 photo though.

Forward to March 17^th and the Daily Mail are stirring up the mob again. This was in reference to an interview he’d done with the Telegraph and the DM “journalist” fails to appreciate that when a comedian says, in relation to tweakments, “Christ, I’m like the Forth Bridge – it never stops”…that it’s self-deprecating humour.

• They say “drastically altered appearance earlier this year” and “startling new look”
  • Fact Check: See above. Teeth and hair were lockdown tweaks.
• Hair transplant in 2022
  • Fact Check: yeah, we’ve been through this – it was 2020

Metro picked the story up but they were basically jumping off the Telegraph interview and rehashing it. Does anyone actually write anything with a unique perspective? Point off for the 2004 picture comparison.

The Plymouth Herald excelled themselves. They scraped some detail from the Telegraph interview but their headline and text said…

• “…he had a proper midlife crisis spending 12 weeks in clinic”
  • Fact Check: no, he didn’t spend 12 weeks getting his teeth done. He had said he spent a couple of days where he was in the dentist’s chair for 12 HOURS.

March 18^th and the Daily Mail is now using click bait headlines, for a piece extracted from a paragraph in a Radio Times interview (to promote Last One Laughing). Radio Times told him that a London comedy club has banned “guest with Botox” to liven up the crowd. He jokingly asked if “him and Katherine Ryan could no longer play the club”?

The Daily Mail translated that into “Jimmy Carr reveals the amount of Botox he’s had might now affect his work opportunities”. That’s some leap of imagination.

They then go on to rehash the January story and also the Telegraph interview again (déja vu, anyone?).

Summary

So, there we have it. There’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back – but it just goes to show what you can find out with a bit of Googling. I would recommend trying it to these “journalists”.

Unfortunately, this is a problem that is going to get worse and worse. As websites / MSM try to cut costs (and most people refuse to pay to read behind a firewall) the quality is on a downward trajectory. Once one site has published inaccurate information it just proliferates – because the smaller publications just copy/paste.

All of these inaccuracies will now have fed into the AI chatbots and be regurgitated forever more. And when the MSM start shedding real people and getting AI to write ALL of their content…well, I’m sure you can see where this is going.

Depressing.