Kirstie Allsopp wants to get a facelift

Kirstie Allsopp plans to "get a facelift" before she turns 55.

The TV star - who celebrated her 50th birthday in August last year - admitted while she's "been very lucky" with aging so far, she is already thinking about "evasive action".

She told the Daily Mail newspaper's Eden Confidential column: "So far I’ve been very lucky, really: I made it to 50 and my face hasn’t collapsed.

"But I reckon I’ve only got about another five years or so. I know it’s only a matter of time before I have to think about evasive action."

Paraphrasing Dylan Thomas' poem 'Do not go gentle into that good night', she quipped: "I will not go gently into the dark night; I will rage against the dying of the light and I will get a facelift."

She also teased celebrities who claim say "getting older is brilliant", and insisted the reality is very different.

She added: "I always marvel at those who say: 'Getting older is brilliant. I’ve never felt better.'

"Sorry, but getting older means more aches and pains; it means you have to work harder to keep your weight down; it means your hairdresser has to use more dye every time you go to see her."

Meanwhile, the 'Location, Location, Location' presenter - whose father is Charles Allsopp, the former Christie's chariman and sixth Lord Hindlip - hit back at the suggestion she owes her career to her dad.

She said: "What drives me potty is when people assume I’ve only managed to get where I am because my dad’s a baron. Same as everybody else, I’ve had to work bloody hard — nothing to do with my dad.

"Yes, I have famous friends, but I’ve also spent two decades talking to ordinary working-class and middle-class people in every county."