As Silvio Berlusconi celebrated his electoral victory today he declared: "I am
very different from the prime minister I was in 2001." You're dead right there Silvio.
Just look at his hair: we all knew he had a transplant from the day when he welcomed Tony and Cherie Blair to Sardinia a few years ago wearing a bandana. But now look how much lustrous dark hair has sprouted in the very spot where the 71-year old leader was once follically challenged.
Not to mention the facelift. It's a miracle of science. But then so is the Italian election result.
But lo - a study by two Italian professors dug out by an enterprising Reuters journalist sheds light on his electoral pulling power. It concerns a 66-year-old woman with a degenerative brain disease who over a three year period was unable to recognise friends and relatives. Among all the famous people whose pictures she was shown - including the Queen, Mussolini and Hitler - there was only one she recognised: Silvio Berlusconi.
"This telling effect of Berlusconi's pervasive propaganda constitutes an unprecedented case in the neuropsychological literature," the study says.
(Photos: Getty Images)
If he put a rabbit on his head, from afar would we genuinely think it was hair.
Nevertheless, if I had the money i would get a new head of hair.
James
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Posted by: james hayes | Tuesday, 15 April 2008 at 08:38 PM