The changing face of Burt Reynolds

His rugged good looks once helped him get voted Hollywood’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive.’

But years of health and money problems have finally taken their toll on Burt Reynolds.

Now 76, the ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ star appears to have given up attempts to fight back time, allowing his hair and his famous mustache to go naturally grey.


He admitted he had cosmetic surgery to correct his eyes after shooting too many fight scenes during his acting heyday, but was adamant he intended to age gracefully.

‘I was never lifted. I would not have a problem with the truth. In the mid ‘80s, after some fights in a film, I had to have my eyes done,’ he said.

‘For one, I almost went blind because I got black powder in my eye. Also I had terrible sacks under my eyes from the many fistfights. My eyes were not in form any more. I had that corrected,’ he added




Burt in 1981
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The actor had a quintuple heart bypass in 2010, a year after he entered a West Palm Beach, Florida rehab clinic to help kick a prescription drug habit that stemmed from earlier back surgery.

At the time, his publicist denied Reynolds was forced to have emergency surgery, saying that he ‘has a great motor with brand new pipes.’

Last year, the actor, who starred 40 years ago in ‘Deliverance’ and films such as ‘The Cannonball Run’, faced having his Florida waterfront mansion repossessed after he reportedly fell (pounds) 700,000 behind on his mortgage.

At the time, Reynolds’ friends revealed his finances were in a mess and claimed he owed millions.

But the twice-married star, who was romantically linked over the years with country singer Tammy Wynette, actress Sally Field, singers Dinah Shore and Lorna Luft and tennis champion Chris Evert, insisted his financial travails were all a misunderstanding.


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