 | A tanned Penny belies her age – whatever it is! – in a one-shoulder dress by Betsey Johnson.“If I had to describe
myself I'd say I look slightly overweight, have nice thick hair and I like my feet," she says. "But hopefully I'm good fun" |
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 | Penny, who admits to being a "born-again yoga person", practises her stretches in a T-shirt
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GMTV newsgirl Penny Smith is disarmingly honest about lying about her age. “Its an issue, which is why I lie about it. I’m 37 and I’m sticking to that. I’ll be 37 for some years to come because it ’s how I feel,” she says, ensconced in her “toasty” but minuscule dressing room at 8.15am just minutes after coming off air from her morning stint.
Her conversation is peppered with self-deprecating references to her advancing years, but she seems to have the energy and attitude of a girl in her twenties. She looks pretty good too: trim and tanned, just back from a trip to the West Indies where she was checking out holiday destinations for GMTV ’s Great Escapes. And she spent Christmas in Barbados.
“I don’t think there’s ever a time that you don’t worry about being replaced by a 12 year-old. It goes with the job,” she says. “I’ve spent all my life expecting to be sacked tomorrow. I don’t know why. I’ve just heard the director wants to speak to me and I always think the worst. You’d think by the age of 143 you’d be over that.”
To read more about Penny, her love of yoga and to see the photographs, check out this week’s issue of HELLO! magazine, on sale now.
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