It's been almost 50 years since Stockard Channing appeared in the 1978 hit film Grease, and her recent appearance has left fans stunned.
The 82-year-old appeared on British TV show Lorraine on June 30, and viewers couldn't believe how youthful she looked, nearly five decades after her turn as Pink Ladies leader Rizzo.
Stockard looked stylish in a navy shirt and dark blazer, sporting a bouncy blow-out as she reflected on her life and career, particularly her role in Grease.
"I was lucky to get a job for the summer, put it that way," she told host Lorraine Kelly.
"The mortgage was ringing in my ear. I'm not making that up, that's absolutely true, I said 'OK, let's go for it.' Let's be the world's oldest living teenager!" she added, referring to being 33 when she played 17-year-old Betty Rizzo.
© ITVViewers were quick to comment, with one writing on social media: "She looks fabulous. 82...wow! Well done Stockard, looking awesome!"
A second said: "It's lovely to see her looking well for her age." A third added: "Doesn't Stockard Channing look amazing?" Another added: "Yes! She's 82."
© ITVStockard has made London her home after relocating from Maine following the death of her long-time partner, cinematographer Daniel Gillham, who died in 2014.
"I enjoyed living here, the friendships I had, I kept, I was spending months at a time here. And then I was here during Covid, and that sort of cemented everything," she told The Times.
"I realized that I was happier here. Also at my age, people get sick, and people die, and people move away. And that started to happen. Now I live here, and I'm really grateful that I was able to pull it off."
© Getty ImagesAhead of her 81st birthday last February, Stockard admitted that "memory is very, very tricky" to hold onto.
Recalling an old Polaroid of herself and her friends in New York, all wearing silly hats, Stockard explained: "I look at that joy, and I'm like, I don't know what I feel about this, because it's painful to look at the past, and yet you say, what happened?
"I don't know what to do with memory; where you put it, how you don't let it overshadow your moment."
© Getty ImagesShe added: "I consciously try to be in the moment because there's a lot of things conspiring to take you away – friends of a similar age who are still enmeshed in the past."
One thing Stockard is certain she doesn't want in the remainder of her life is a new romantic relationship.
"No, I think that would be such a pain in the [expletive]," she stated to the publication. "I'm consolidating, thank you very much. I'm very happy with the friends I have. No. Life is good. Life is very good."
© Getty ImagesStockard has been married four times: to Walter Channing Jr., from 1964 to 1967; Paul Schmidt, from 1969 to 1976; David Debin, from 1976 to 1980; and David Rawle, from 1982 to 1988.
Speaking about her relationships to The Guardian in 2006, she explained: "What have I learned from my divorces? I know that nobody gets married to get divorced. I don't think I'll get married another time."
