Tom Daley participated in a rapid fire Q&A session with the Daily Mail to promote his new book Tom Daley’s Plan, which offers 224-pages of diet and exercise tips to create “a healthier, happier you.” In the interview, the young Olympian talks about everything from plastic surgery to aging.
When asked if he’s ever had plastic surgery, Daley replied, “Not now, but ask me in ten years and it might be different.”
Ten years? If he’s 22 now, that means he plans to start Botox treatments at 32.
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Although, if he had it his way, he’ll never actually be 32, because when asked about aging, Mr. Daley had this to say: “I’d like to stop myself growing older at 27. By 27 you’re old enough to be taken seriously because you have some life experience and not too old to no longer have fun.”
Don’t worry, Tom. We’ll always take you seriously!
Here are some other highlights from the riveting Q&A:
On his daily workout routine:
“I do ten minutes of meditation each morning, then two-and-a-half hours’ training in the pool, morning and afternoon, then a yoga or spin class.”
On alcohol:
“I stopped drinking two years before Rio because alcohol affects your sharpness, weight and health. At the Olympic homecoming party I had a couple of sips of champagne and felt awful!”
On oral health:
“When I was 11 I had too many teeth and had some removed so I could have braces.”
On feeling sorry for himself when he has a cold:
“I rarely get ill and, unlike my fiancee Lance who makes sure I know whenever he’s sick, I never feel sorry for myself when I’m unwell.”
On depression:
“I went through a rough time after winning bronze at London 2012 then coming back to training without much time off. I felt lost and without direction. When I met Lance he was so good at what he did he inspired me to get my act together.”
On his biggest phobia:
“I used to be afraid of sick–if anyone threw up I’d panic.”
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jdboston617
Haha plastic surgery. Of course, he doesn’t want to offend Lance who has had more work than Joan Rivers. Ok, ok, maybe not Joan. Melissa Rivers then!
Doughosier
Aging is going to be really hard for him. Who wouldn’t want to stop again at 27? Maybe science will be able to grant that wish one day…
Paco
Plastic surgery doesn’t make people look younger. It makes them look weird with less wrinkles.
ChrisK
@Paco: Plastic surgery is good for certain things like neck lift or nose job. However, you’re right about the rest. Besides. Look at male celebs. You think with all their money and fame they could get work done that looked natural. Here we are with just average means and we expect were going to be different. Just like the website models. Ha.
ChrisK
@Doughosier: I know. Especially when your BF is only attracted to your youth.
Xzamilloh
At 32, though? God, how conceited could you be?
Paco
@ChrisK: Men need to be especially careful with work on their face. Many end up looking feminized. I’ll wait until they have discovered how to actually reverse the aging process. Until then, I am happy to accept that I will never look like a twenty-something again.
jkthsnk
I admire his diving, but can we please stop taking body issue advice from a 20 something, endomorphic waif?
NateOcean
Look, I like Tom Daley, but seriously I doubt he wrote a word of this book.
And I *do* so love it when 22-year-olds relate to me how much “life experience” they have accumulated.
whatsaywhat
@jkthsnk:
*ectomorphic. Endomorphs re more likely to be fat.
But for realizes, will anyone care to ask Tom Daley in 10 years?
ChrisK
@jkthsnk: Ha. I just realized this was about him supposedly writing a book. At freaking 22 you can sit on the couch every day eating nothing but potato chips and look and feel great. At 22 I didn’t know shit in life. I just thought I did.
Anyone who buys his book is a moron of the highest order. Tom should be selling naked pics of his ass and leave the health and life advice to actual adults. That or write a book about how to snag a wealthy sugar daddy. At least we know he has experience there.
ChrisK
@whatsaywhat: Not really. Most brits don’t age well and he’ll be too over the hill for any Queerty attention and Lance will most likely be long gone on his replacement twink.
broadshoulder
Which desperate journalist as this 22 year old whether he plastic surgery??
radiooutmike
@Paco: I wish I could still look like I did at 18 or 25, especially my body. But I do love guys who look their age, including myself.
Heywood Jablowme
I guess the precedent would be Liberace forcing his MUCH younger bf to get plastic surgery in order to resemble Liberace! Ha ha ha.
cabe
He already looks like he is 12 years old – he has a real baby face and doesn’t even look like he shaves or has an adams apple.
Frank
Tom Daley stating publicly that he would consider plastic surgery at 32 is just a SAD statement for him to make when there are SO many impressible young gay men out there.
Chris
Agreed. How sad that a young and even younger-looking twenty-two year old is already planning for plastic surgery within a decade. Most men that age are planning on their next lover, not surgery! He gives new meaning to the term “old soul.”
da90027
He sounds pretty airheaded but most at 22 do…I know many men who haven’t had any surgery yet at 50 and still look great I see many freaks at my gym at Golds in Hollywood who overdid botox and dye their hair and look like surprised feminine freaks. Taking any advice from a 22 year old is just insane. At 22 I never had to diet or workout and had a 29 inch waist and abs. PUHLEEZE!
BartmanLA
Wow such hostility for Tom! What many of you who have dissed him for putting out something that is meant to help people, at least give them healthy options about living a life that might be an improvement over what they might have going on right now. But a lot of you have failed to acknowledge that he’s a world class athlete! He trains all the time, he has to watch his health, diet, weight etc, it’s a critical part of his training in order for him to be in top physical shape so that he can compete in national and international competitions like the Olympics. Sure he’s doing something that is going to make his life a lot more visible, but at least he’s doing it in a way that is meant to help others. What have some of you done to help others in the LGBT community lately?
ChrisK
I didn’t know Tom Was Mother Teresa. What a saint! Makes me cry knowing he’s doing so much for so little. Lol
misterheck
The book is called “Tom’s Daily Plan,” not Tom Daley’s Plan.