Sir Cliff, who is 71 in October, will play eight dates across the UK next month and is preparing to release a new album, Soulicious: The Soul Album. The 5ft 10in star weighs 10st 7lb and has a 30in waist, the same as 30 years ago.

Sir Cliff is an avid follower of the Blood Type diet – a strict eating plan based on the theory that each blood group reacts to certain food types – and plays tennis three times a week. He also follows the book Secrets Of Longevity: Hundreds Of Ways To Live To Be 100.

Among its more unusual tips, it suggests eating daily doses of garlic, orange peel and celery juice.

Cliff is in fantastic shape. 30 inch waist, mine was not that size since I was a teenager.
A month in Guyana reduce my waist size by two belt notches, no special diet, just walking and sweating.

He still has to find that living doll.

the man looking good, he actually might live to be a 100 and still look good.