Stress can take it’s toll on you, although granted, it varies from person to person. Take this gentleman for instance who went from happy and fresh-faced to weary and wizened in a span of in three years, if these photos are to be believed. The price paid for the life of a news anchor is, it seems, high indeed.
Categories: Aging, Skepticism, Stress, WTF
Posted at 3:16 pm on May 15, 2008
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Maybe he has seen horrors beyond the human capacity for horror.
Comment by eltiburo — May 15, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
or he’s on a shit ton of hard drugs?
Though what accounts for the graying hair I don’t know, why not dye it if you’re a news anchor?
Comment by Andy — May 15, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
he has the same condition as Solid Snake, the rapid deterioration of cells because he was cloned
Comment by zack — May 15, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
@Andy:
He keeps the gray hair for added gravitas.
Comment by Mike — May 15, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
It must be the newscast of Dorian Gray.
Comment by Ryan — May 15, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
maybe he has a horrible wasting disease.
Comment by thefileclerk — May 15, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
umm, it more seems like he went from not dying his hair to letting grow gray. Looking at the rest of his face he looks old in all of them.
Comment by bc9b89 — May 15, 2008 @ 10:47 pm
He looks like a damn heroin addict or something!
Comment by Oni — May 15, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
oh, he just was getting older and it was time to stop dying the hair and look more natural. maybe between 2007/05 and 2007/07 he realized the new look was popular with his demographic and just decided to go for it and got it more fully grayed by his hair dresser. this way, he’ll look like the youngest-looking old guy of all the old guys, and for longer.
Comment by darue — May 16, 2008 @ 12:27 am
It’s not just the hair, though he had to have known the effect would be stark if he went from jet black to nigh white in three months time. Look at his cheeks. Granted, he’s smiling in the first pic, but they really collapsed in those three years. His posture looks worse, too, though that may be in part due to an ill-fitting jacket. I have no idea who he is, but I really feel for him.
Comment by License Farm — May 16, 2008 @ 1:42 am
Awww, he’s just going for the “Anderson Cooper is hot” look!
Actually, it really is hard to tell with the lighting in those different studios whether he’s aged that much or not, but that last version, the news studio, really doesn’t do complimentary lighting at all.
Hell, look at any of our presidents’ pictures at the beginning of their term and the end. We chew them up pretty badly too.
Comment by Jamma — May 16, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
And that’s how we find out who’s been attacked by a succubus in the modern age.
Comment by CJ — May 16, 2008 @ 3:00 pm
The wonders of high definition television.
Comment by Rik — May 16, 2008 @ 6:35 pm