“My age spots are gone and my skin looks 20 years younger” - Debbie McGee reveals the secret behind her glowing new skin
No fillers, no Botox - just a “wonderful” facial Debbie McGee credits with fading her age spots for good
There’s a particular kind of glow that comes from feeling good in your own skin - not filtered, not “done”, just genuinely comfortable going bare-faced. It’s the sort of result most of us invest years into our skincare routines for - which is why it’s always worth paying attention when someone who’s spent decades in the public eye, camera-ready under studio lighting, says they’ve finally found something that actually works.
Debbie McGee has never been one for invasive tweakments - Botox and fillers, she says, always scared her. But at 67, the former Strictly finalist has finally found a treatment she’s happy to shout about, and the results have been enough to send her makeup bag into early retirement.
For the past year, Debbie has been having NeoGen nitrogen plasma treatments with aesthetic practitioner Jenny O’Neill at the Aspire Clinic. Debbie’s main motivation was tackling a longstanding insecurity: a large brown age spot on her cheek, inherited from her father, that she’d covered with makeup for years. “It wasn’t a mole. It was two, but they kind of covered this area of my cheek,” she explains. “They’re unsightly. So I always had to cover it with makeup, and if I didn’t, people would say, ‘What’s that?’”
So, what is Neogen - and how does it work?
The technology works by converting nitrogen gas into plasma energy, delivering controlled heat that penetrates the skin’s deeper layers to stimulate collagen and elastin production.
Unlike lasers, chemical peels and the best red light therapy devices, it works on the whole skin structure rather than just the surface, with results that build gradually over the following weeks.
Debbie's experience with Neogen
The treatment did far more than she bargained for. As a self-confessed “sun worshiper” in her younger years, Debbie had also built up a scattering of small freckles that had long bothered her, and those faded too.
“So now I’m the proud owner of a face with clear skin at my grand old age,” she says. “It’s a wonderful treatment in so many more ways than I would’ve ever thought possible.”
What’s struck her most is that the improvements haven’t stopped. She’s noticed her skin’s texture and tone continuing to refine over time as her own collagen production ramps up - including softening the fine lines on her top lip that she’d been dreading treating with filler, and a subtle tightening along her jawline.
Crucially for Debbie, nobody’s clocked that she’s had anything done. “What’s been fantastic about Neogen is all my girlfriends, and lots of guys I know, keep telling me, ‘My goodness, Debbie, you look so good.’ But they don’t say, ‘What have you had done?’” It’s this natural, no-downtime approach - she opted for lower-energy sessions to fit her schedule - that’s made her a convert.
The full series of six treatments cost £4,500 in total (around £750 a session), which Debbie argues "pays for itself" once you factor in the money saved on other makeup and skincare endeavours. Downtime is minimal, and numbing cream is available for anyone worried about discomfort.
Debbie is marking 50 years in showbusiness this year, with her autobiography, A Magical Life, out in October - and by the sound of it, she’s never felt more ready to face the cameras without a scrap of concealer.
Debbie had her treatments at the Aspire Clinic in Reading, but NeoGen is available at clinics across the UK - find your nearest at neogenplasma.co.uk.
