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ORANGE SMARTIE: Elderly Gallery scribe Glenn Milne’s fake tan leaves them rolling on both side of the aisle
Ex Seven News political journalist Glenn Milne’s fake tan has become a talking point in the corridors of power in Canberra.
On Sydney radio yesterday, Joe Hockey was asked whether he had gone down the fake tan path himself, given he was looking so tanned and ready – possibly for leadership. The consummate Liberal lefty professional dead-batted the proposition, not wanting to concede any beauty treatment of his own or to make any suggestions about Milne’s vanity that might provoke retribution.
Milne is notorious for using his column in The Australian in particular as a vehicle for settling scores with those who cross him, particularly in the Liberal party, where the latte sipper pretends to be a fellow traveller.
It is of course an open secret in chilly Canberra where the sun don’t shine that the perma-tanned former TV reporter turned overpaid News Ltd scribe Glenn Milne has been a frequent user of solariums over the years.
In the days when fronting up to the sun-lamp was still considered a safe option, his tan had an even, crispy brown leathery quality of the kind often seen displayed by sixty-something matrons on Cavill Avenue, Surfers Paradise.
Some thought, like patriot lobbyist former Senator Robert Ray he might be of partly Indian descent.
But this year in particular, keen Milne observers have detected that he is becoming more and more Oompa Loompa like in his orange colouring. Beauty industry insiders – on the VEXNEWS speed-dial – tell us that this indicates Milne has transitioned from the toasty but potentially lethal sunlamp to either or both of an injection designed to chemically tan the skin from within or possibly the cheaper spray-on option.
Either way, this week particularly, he’s looked positively ridiculous. Should we be congratulating him for repudiating potentially life-threatening beauty methods or perhaps just pitying him for bothering in the first place? We report. You decide.
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LEAVE GLENNY ALONE!:tears:
How does he compare to Wayne Swan on the tangerine-o-meter?
Mate I think Milne’s liver is packing it in….and he’s gone from yellow to orange.
Anyway now his tan matches his personality.
Fake.
…at least his nose is still brown and firmly lodged up the Libs’ collective clacker!
almost as orange as shorten a couple of years ago
Dud story, Landy!