10 CELEBRITIES WHO LIED...ABOUT THEIR AGE - "We knocked off a few years..." - why 29-year-old model Agyness Deyn lied about her real age

Telling fibs about your age is so Hollywood - but Agyness Deyn has admitted why she actually shaved off six years from her real number

Agyness Deyn has revealed her real age but she's not the only celeb' fibber...

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Agyness Deyn has revealed that she lied about her age to get ahead in the modelling world.
She confesses: “When I decided I would really do modelling I was like 18, and I think at the time that was quite old for a new face, so we knocked off a few years.”
Agy’s school friends had already started the rumours about her age - someone even set up a Facebook group in 2007 called ‘Agyness Deyn You’re Not 18’ which is clever because it’s rhymes, but was less effective when she 'turned 19'.
The founders said: “This group is for all those who realise that supermodel Agyness Deyn, AKA Laura Hollins, is not 18, or 21 or any of the other ages she claims to be. We know people who went to school with her and will verify she is 24*” (NB back in 2007).
And now Agyness model (and BF to designer Henry Holland) has admitted herself that she is actually six years older than the age her CV suggests, making her 29 in 2012.
What!? Twenty-nine is a very fine age indeed Ms Deyn! And this has nothing to do with the fact that this 3am-er is 29 too…

Agyness revealed she lied about her age, whilst possibly wearing a safety pin in her ear. Who else has? Scroll down...

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Agy was once touted as the 'new Kate Moss' (even though the ‘old Kate Moss’ is not old and is more successful than ever) but Agy still decided to lie about her age in 2006 when, at 24, she met with a New York agent who subsequently signed her.
Agyness has also revealed why she changed her name from Laura Hollins to Agyness Deyn, saying: “I started modelling and they said there are loads of Lauras - you can change your name. I was like, ok, and then I thought about it and say ok, I’ll be called Agnes; my grandmother was called Agnes.” Ok.
On one level we’re not sure what to believe anymore, although we can rest safe in the knowledge that’s Ms Hollins/Deyn is a super-successful model who has worked for Burberry, Vivienne Westwood and Armani.
And she seems nice.
Agyness isn't the only star to lose a few years here or there either.
Nicole Scherzinger, J-Lo and even Emimen have all mysteriously 'forgotten their own birthdays' over the years - either than or they all contracted a serious case of the Benjamin Buttons (they didn’t).

Scroll down for more celeb’ age shock revelations (and some ‘really , you thought you’d get away with that!?’ revelations) below. One mystery A-Lister even upped her age count…but who? WHO!?

Nicole Scherzinger

One-time Pussycat Doll Nicole admitted that she’d been lying about her age back in 2008. While she’d said she was 28, she was actually about to turn 30. Making her 34 this year, with the body of a 21-year old (insert jealous face here). Her response? “I should’ve said I was 27!”

Nicki Minaj loves shopping for Crayola-coloured clothes so much, she forgot her birth date

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Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj was involved in a fight late last year. So far, so celebrity. Only the police report accidentally revealed her real age. She had been telling everyone that she’s 26, when in fact she’s 28. Hollywood = jolly awkward.

Eminen told Howard Stern that he was 24 in 1999, but he was in fact 27. Meaning he’ll turn 40 this year (unless he forgets again).

Eminem should get his real age inked on his arm, that'll stop him 'forgetting' on live TV again...

J-Lo point? She forgot her birth date too, who's to know she's even 'Jenny from the block'...

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Jennifer Lopez
After telling anyone who’d listen that she was born in 1970, JLo was forced to admit to NYPD police types that she was actually born in 1960 after she and then boyfriend Puff Daddy were questioned about a shooting incident that occurred in a nightclub. Puff Daddy eh? Diddy lie too? Probably not, but we wanted to crack that ‘gag’. But as far as JLo is concerned, we don’t know what to believe anymore - with all those rocks that she’s got, who’s to say Jenny’s even from the block?
James Blunt

He said 'You're beautiful'. He said he was 33. We're not sure what to believe anymore...

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James not so blunt, nor truthful for that matter…In an attempt to appeal to a younger audience, JB shaved three years off his age until he was busted by a broadsheet aged 36. We can ‘exclusively’ reveal that that was in 2010 and he is now 38. Does this mean he was lying when he sang ‘you’re beautiful’ too? Ooh the, er, cad.
Nadine Coyle

Nadine was foiled and all - but distracted us by doing her best teapot impression

In 2001 Coyle auditioned for Irish Popstars, on which Walsh was a judge (naturally). She won a place in a band before it was revealed that she’d lied about her age. She was 16 years old, two years younger than the minimum age requirement of 18. Louis then encouraged her to enter Popstars: the Rivals in the UK, which she did, bagged a place in Girls Aloud, got famous, went to the US, opened an Irish bar, released some singles and the rest is a whole lotta history…

Nelly

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Nelly the rapper (with the memory of an elephant) was betrayed by his birth certificate when Teen People put him in their Hottest Stars Under 25 round-up – a fact confirmed by his reps at the time. Only, one call later and it suddenly emerged that he was, in fact, 28. Oh the shame. Try sticking a plaster over that one Mr Nelly…
Geri Halliwell

Geri Halliwell: Liberal with the truth and the tan

Claimed to be 21 when the Spice Girls launched their first album but it later emerged she was in fact 25, so some mean times labeled her Old Spice. For being 25!? Shocker, though it is clever mind. Geri went on to celebrate her 29th birthday a few times before Victoria Beckham let slip that Geri had already turned 30. VB you cheeky so-and-so!

Sanda Bullock's so ashamed she can't even look us in the eye...(she's not)

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Sandra Bullock
And one Sanrda Bullock admitted she upped her annual count telling Barbara Walters: she lied to producers of Love Potion (no, us neither) telling them she was 29. They believed her and it was only Vanity Fair magazine that busted her. Sandra’s response? “After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
"I always said I would never lie, but one time, when I didn't it worked against me. So I figure you just keep them guessing."
Ahem to that.

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