Fashion advisor Susannah of Trinny and Susannah fame and What Not To Wear has come clean and said she has been suffering with a new breed of head lice that she has not been able to get rid of for three years.
The TV presenter and author said that she had caught a "new breed of super-louse" that was resistant to chemical treatment that had left her feeling humiliated.
Speaking in The Mail On Sunday she said: "Not only am I suffering the shame of a full-blown infestation, the sort of thing associated with unkempt children in the primary-school playground, my nits have so far lasted three long years."
The mother-of-three has had her hair "professionally 'hoovered"' to get rid of the head lice and wrote that "so far as I'm concerned, a nit-free future for me and for my family means this is money well spent".
"At first I found it funny. I'd tease and taunt... Trinny Woodall... shaking my hair next to her. 'Urgh! Have you got nits again?' she would squeal.
"But - despite my joking - it was uncomfortable and humiliating and, for a while at least, invitations for coffee would dry up."
