Ex-Navy career girl Amanda is now a full time mother of five and despite this, still has a svelte figure that many women would give their right arm for.

Care worker Dee is desperately in need of the 10 Years Younger treatment. Thirty-five years of smoking 20 cigarettes a day have resulted in gum disease so severe most of her teeth dropped out, and the rest had to be pulled.

Drinking gallons of cola every day has left 39-year-old mother-of-two Nikki Powditch - a kennel maid and ex-Mohican wearer from Melton Mowbray - with teeth so rotten they were all whipped out, causing her face to sink in.

Property manager Viv Tremain from County Durham's splattered tracksuits and scraped back balding hair add years to her appearance.

Mel Smith is a single working mum of two, looking for love. Online dating helps, but once they've clapped eyes on her wrinkled face, Mel's never invited back for coffee.

Veronica Brand is a sun loving naturist and yoga teacher who at every opportunity strips off to embrace the rays. So it's hardly surprising that scans have shown this sunshine goddess to have the wrinkled skin of an 80-year-old.

Retro reject Marilyn Cooke loves nothing more than backcombing her 80s hairdo and then cementing it in place with two giant cans of hairspray a week - trouble is she's been doing it for 25 years.

A real-life Cinderella from Surrey, Jane Sandiford has two very glamorous older sisters, who easily look 10 years her junior. She doesn't call herself 'plain Jane' for nothing - with limp boring bobbed hair, bottle bottom glasses and no beauty regime to speak of, our Cinders is in desperate need of some magic.