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image captionEd, pictured here before his Botox, says that some of his friends and family were alarmed. while others were jealous
As more men have enquired about cosmetic surgery during the pandemic, BBC reporter Ed Butler decides to brave the Botox needle.
There s an old line that goes you only get wrinkles where the smiles have been .
Mine though are cropping up in some of the strangest corners of my 54-year-old face.
Applying a surgical remedy hadn t been on my radar until recently, when the past year exposed a possibly surprising rise in men seeking tweakment .
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