Gail Porter has suggested an unexpected cause for her alopecia, revealing her hair began to fall out as she visited Frank Sinatra’s grave.
The former Top Of The Pops presenter has battled alopecia for 15 years and believes a visit to the legendary Rat Pack singer’s final resting place was the cause.
Recalling her visit to Sinatra’s grave while researching paranormal activity, Gail told Louis Theroux on his BBC podcast: ‘I had been working in America on a programme called Dead Famous – we were looking for Frank Sinatra in a graveyard in Las Vegas… and then bits of my hair started falling out.’
Sinatra, who died in 1998, is actually buried at the Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California rather than Las Vegas.
Gail, 49, continued: ‘My boyfriend was the cameraman and he was like, “Your hair is falling out”.
‘And I was like, “It’ll be fine, maybe it’s hormonal”.’
The TV presenter then revealed how she went to visit her mum in Edinburgh shortly after and showed her hair loss to her for the first time.
‘I took my hat off and the first thing she said was, “I told you if you mess with the dark side they will take your hair”,’ Gail recalled.
Taken aback by the answer, Louis quipped: ‘My question was going to be, was it related to stress or being bipolar and the breakdown of your marriage.
‘But it turns out it was Ol’ Blue Eyes.’
‘It was Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas,’ Gail joked.
In January, Gail explained how she’s learned to embrace her baldness over the years after being diagnosed with alopecia in 2005.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said: ‘I think I’ve been very fortunate. I quite like the fact I don’t have hair now.
‘Obviously, when it first happened it was very shocking. Now I just embrace it… I can understand people who lose hair and find it very upsetting. Now I think, it is what it is. I don’t really worry about anything.’
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